From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:32:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document changes on mbcs encoding
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a3~299
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0cbec571ae01b83923165b38d0295e1467b5efc1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Document changes on mbcs encoding
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index bd38a7e123cb..7d8b2e61f2d1 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -544,3 +544,10 @@ require changes to your code:
   opaque C pointers in Python objects, the :ctype:`PyCapsule` API should be used
   instead; the new type has a well-defined interface for passing typing safety
   information and a less complicated signature for calling a destructor.
+
+* mbcs encoding doesn't ignore the error handler argument anymore. By default
+  (strict mode), it raises an UnicodeDecodeError on undecodable byte sequence
+  and UnicodeEncodeError on unencodable character. To get the mbcs encoding of
+  Python 3.1, use ``'ignore'`` error handler to decode and ``'replace'`` error
+  handler to encode. mbcs now supports ``'strict'`` and ``'ignore'`` error
+  handlers for decoding, and ``'strict'`` and ``'replace'`` for encoding.