From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:55:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: News item about the new encoding normalization scheme.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3889
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=97047e219ff1bb86acf954515006f20fd99cd657;p=python

News item about the new encoding normalization scheme.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 757a0934f0..da2c81c7b3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -340,6 +340,12 @@ Extension modules
 Library
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+- Encoding name normalization was generalized to not only
+  replace hyphens with underscores, but also all other non-alphanumeric
+  characters (with the exception of the dot which is used for Python
+  package names during lookup). The aliases.py mapping was updated
+  to the new standard.
+
 - mimetypes has two new functions: guess_all_extensions() which
   returns a list of all known extensions for a mime type, and
   add_type() which adds one mapping between a mime type and