[3.14] gh-42237: Link to complete list of codec aliases (GH-136625) (#136626)

gh-42237: Link to complete list of codec aliases (GH-136625)

Closes GH-42237
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@ -1065,8 +1065,15 @@ or with dictionaries as mapping tables. The following table lists the codecs by
name, together with a few common aliases, and the languages for which the
encoding is likely used. Neither the list of aliases nor the list of languages
is meant to be exhaustive. Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in
case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases; therefore,
e.g. ``'utf-8'`` is a valid alias for the ``'utf_8'`` codec.
case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases
because they are equivalent when normalized by
:func:`~encodings.normalize_encoding`. For example, ``'utf-8'`` is a valid
alias for the ``'utf_8'`` codec.
.. note::
The below table lists the most common aliases, for a complete list
refer to the source :source:`aliases.py <Lib/encodings/aliases.py>` file.
On Windows, ``cpXXX`` codecs are available for all code pages.
But only codecs listed in the following table are guarantead to exist on