Order Mark (BOM), followed by Unicode encoded using UTF-8. (See the `relevant
section of the specification <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6>`_.)
-In Python 2.6 and 2.7, code was added to
+In Python 3.1, code was added to
:class:`~logging.handlers.SysLogHandler` to insert a BOM into the message, but
unfortunately, it was implemented incorrectly, with the BOM appearing at the
beginning of the message and hence not allowing any pure-ASCII component to
appear before it.
As this behaviour is broken, the incorrect BOM insertion code is being removed
-from Python 2.7.4 and later. However, it is not being replaced, and if you
+from Python 3.2.4 and later. However, it is not being replaced, and if you
want to produce RFC 5424-compliant messages which includes a BOM, an optional
pure-ASCII sequence before it and arbitrary Unicode after it, encoded using
UTF-8, then you need to do the following: