From 507e3f8d9d7fb5d2b549b5f4a92d0df93ac3449e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Belopolsky Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:05:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] With Raymond's approval added a paragraph describing Unicode 6.0.0 changes. Not reST formatted. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index bc5e84e044..301f122934 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -661,6 +661,23 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added: Unicode ======= +Python has been updated to Unicode 6.0.0. The new features of the +Unicode Standard that will affect Python users include: + +* adds 2,088 characters, including over 1,000 additional symbols—chief +among them the additional emoji symbols, which are especially +important for mobile phones; + +* corrects character properties for existing characters including + - a general category change to two Kannada characters (U+0CF1, +U+0CF2), which has the effect of making them newly eligible for +inclusion in identifiers; + + - a general category change to one New Tai Lue numeric character +(U+19DA), which would have the effect of disqualifying it from +inclusion in identifiers unless grandfathering measures are in place +for the defining identifier syntax. + The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and :func:`~os.fsdecode`. Add :data:`os.environb`: bytes version of :data:`os.environ`, :func:`os.getenvb` function and -- 2.50.1