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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-04-05 12:15:05 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-04-05 12:15:05 (GMT)
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Comment about UTF-16 changes.
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@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ Extension modules
Library
+- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError
+ for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just
+ produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is
+ a 2-byte encoding and the C lib's line reading APIs don't
+ work well with these.
+
- compileall now supports quiet operation.
- The BaseHTTPServer implements now optionally HTTP/1.1 persistent