From 50d1f7935d7155fc4cf243411b5a2f1a77cf06dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:03:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #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.

---
 Lib/encodings/aliases.py | 5 +++++
 Misc/NEWS                | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index 8e82806d885..4c35588c88c 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 3173fcb71c3..dd91623af0c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ Core and Builtins
 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".