From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:15:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Comment about UTF-16 changes.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6115
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4179a01bb72b9034d2de8d5644c5217b69aaf300;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Comment about UTF-16 changes.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 15a049d95584..7b6b449054e1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ Extension modules
 
 Library
 
+- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError
+  for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just
+  produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is
+  a 2-byte encoding and the C lib's line reading APIs don't
+  work well with these.
+
 - compileall now supports quiet operation.
 
 - The BaseHTTPServer implements now optionally HTTP/1.1 persistent