#1276: Add temporary encoding aliases for non-supported Mac CJK
encodings that are detected as system defaults in MacOS with CJK
locales. Will be replaced by properly-implemented codecs in 3.1.
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index 8e82806..4c35588 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
@@ -519,4 +519,9 @@
#'zip' : 'zlib_codec',
#'zlib' : 'zlib_codec',
+ # temporary mac CJK aliases, will be replaced by proper codecs in 3.1
+ 'x_mac_japanese' : 'shift_jis',
+ 'x_mac_korean' : 'euc_kr',
+ 'x_mac_simp_chinese' : 'gb2312',
+ 'x_mac_trad_chinese' : 'big5',
}
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3173fcb..dd91623 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #1276: Added temporary aliases for CJK Mac encodings to resolve
+ a build problem on MacOS with CJK locales. It adds four temporary
+ mappings to existing legacy codecs that are virtually compatible
+ with Mac encodings. They will be replaced by codecs correctly
+ implemented in 3.1.
+
- Issue #3614: Corrected a typo in xmlrpc.client, leading to a NameError
"global name 'header' is not defined".