From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:28:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add news about PYC magic and changes to UTF-8 codec.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6715
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e92e0a944e8885d615b30bb11809fec6eb815e6f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add news about PYC magic and changes to UTF-8 codec.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c1510679704a..8ad4129fe4d1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- The UTF-8 codec will now encode and decode Unicode surrogates
+  correctly and without raising exceptions for unpaired ones.
+
 - file.xreadlines() now raises a ValueError if the file is closed:
   Previously, an xreadlines object was returned which would raise
   a ValueError when the xreadlines.next() method was called.
@@ -51,6 +54,9 @@ C API
 - Because Python's magic number scheme broke on January 1st, we decided
   to stop Python development.  Thanks for all the fish!
 
+- Some of us don't like fish, so we changed Python's magic number 
+  scheme to a new one. See Python/import.c for details.
+
 New platforms
 
 - GNU/Hurd is now supported.