From 77d73facdc0c0fc17ba3d6487aed0276d8b7079c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:55:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] whatsnew: encoding is now optional in PYTHONIOENCODING
 (#18818)

---
 Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index ddc21fc960..109549e071 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1578,6 +1578,11 @@ Other Improvements
   to use copies rather than symlinks even on systems where symlinks are the
   default.  (Contributed by Vinay Sajip in :issue:`18807`.)
 
+* The encoding name is now optional in the value set for the
+  :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` environment variable.  This makes it possible to
+  set just the error handler, without changing the default encoding.
+  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`18818`.)
+
 
 Significant Optimizations
 -------------------------
-- 
2.50.0