diff --git a/common/src/encodings.rs b/common/src/encodings.rs
index 7a6cd16069..bbbc5e8202 100644
--- a/common/src/encodings.rs
+++ b/common/src/encodings.rs
@@ -172,6 +172,81 @@ pub mod utf8 {
     }
 }
 
+pub mod latin_1 {
+    use super::*;
+
+    pub const ENCODING_NAME: &str = "latin-1";
+
+    const ERR_REASON: &str = "ordinal not in range(256)";
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn encode<E: ErrorHandler>(s: &str, errors: &E) -> Result<Vec<u8>, E::Error> {
+        let full_data = s;
+        let mut data = s;
+        let mut char_data_index = 0;
+        let mut out = Vec::<u8>::new();
+        loop {
+            match data
+                .char_indices()
+                .enumerate()
+                .find(|(_, (_, c))| !c.is_ascii())
+            {
+                None => {
+                    out.extend_from_slice(data.as_bytes());
+                    break;
+                }
+                Some((char_i, (byte_i, ch))) => {
+                    out.extend_from_slice(&data.as_bytes()[..byte_i]);
+                    let char_start = char_data_index + char_i;
+                    if (ch as u32) <= 255 {
+                        out.push(ch as u8);
+                        let char_restart = char_start + 1;
+                        data = crate::str::try_get_chars(full_data, char_restart..)
+                            .ok_or_else(|| errors.error_oob_restart(char_restart))?;
+                        char_data_index = char_restart;
+                    } else {
+                        // number of non-latin_1 chars between the first non-latin_1 char and the next latin_1 char
+                        let non_latin_1_run_length = data[byte_i..]
+                            .chars()
+                            .take_while(|c| (*c as u32) > 255)
+                            .count();
+                        let char_range = char_start..char_start + non_latin_1_run_length;
+                        let (replace, char_restart) = errors.handle_encode_error(
+                            full_data,
+                            char_range.clone(),
+                            ERR_REASON,
+                        )?;
+                        match replace {
+                            EncodeReplace::Str(s) => {
+                                if s.as_ref().chars().any(|c| (c as u32) > 255) {
+                                    return Err(
+                                        errors.error_encoding(full_data, char_range, ERR_REASON)
+                                    );
+                                }
+                                out.extend_from_slice(s.as_ref().as_bytes());
+                            }
+                            EncodeReplace::Bytes(b) => {
+                                out.extend_from_slice(b.as_ref());
+                            }
+                        }
+                        data = crate::str::try_get_chars(full_data, char_restart..)
+                            .ok_or_else(|| errors.error_oob_restart(char_restart))?;
+                        char_data_index = char_restart;
+                    }
+                    continue;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(out)
+    }
+
+    pub fn decode<E: ErrorHandler>(data: &[u8], _errors: &E) -> Result<(String, usize), E::Error> {
+        let out: String = data.iter().map(|c| *c as char).collect();
+        let out_len = out.len();
+        Ok((out, out_len))
+    }
+}
+
 pub mod ascii {
     use super::*;
     use ::ascii::AsciiStr;
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/codecs.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/codecs.rs
index ac63e4e1d4..355661852a 100644
--- a/vm/src/stdlib/codecs.rs
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/codecs.rs
@@ -315,6 +315,19 @@ mod _codecs {
         do_codec!(utf8::decode, args, vm)
     }
 
+    #[pyfunction]
+    fn latin_1_encode(args: EncodeArgs, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> EncodeResult {
+        if args.s.is_ascii() {
+            return Ok((args.s.as_str().as_bytes().to_vec(), args.s.byte_len()));
+        }
+        do_codec!(latin_1::encode, args, vm)
+    }
+
+    #[pyfunction]
+    fn latin_1_decode(args: DecodeArgsNoFinal, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> DecodeResult {
+        do_codec!(latin_1::decode, args, vm)
+    }
+
     #[pyfunction]
     fn ascii_encode(args: EncodeArgs, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> EncodeResult {
         if args.s.is_ascii() {
@@ -353,14 +366,6 @@ mod _codecs {
         }};
     }
 
-    #[pyfunction]
-    fn latin_1_encode(args: FuncArgs, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult {
-        delegate_pycodecs!(latin_1_encode, args, vm)
-    }
-    #[pyfunction]
-    fn latin_1_decode(args: FuncArgs, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult {
-        delegate_pycodecs!(latin_1_decode, args, vm)
-    }
     #[pyfunction]
     fn mbcs_encode(args: FuncArgs, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult {
         delegate_pycodecs!(mbcs_encode, args, vm)