From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:24:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add news item about change in encodings search function.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~918
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57cb68fe93ab99e9dc3fb702755cfd8d914b6834;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add news item about change in encodings search function.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 869a4d3a92ed..3b6c8c6402cf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ Extension modules
 Library
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+- The encodings package will now applies codec name aliases
+  first before starting to try the import of the codec module.
+  This simplifies overriding built-in codecs with external
+  packages, e.g. the included CJK codecs with the JapaneseCodecs
+  package, by adjusting the aliases dictionary in encodings.aliases
+  accordingly.
+
 - base64 now supports RFC 3548 Base16, Base32, and Base64 encoding and
   decoding standards.