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authorHye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>2004-08-04 17:36:41 (GMT)
committerHye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>2004-08-04 17:36:41 (GMT)
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SF #941229: Decode source code with sys.stdin.encoding in interactive
modes like non-interactive modes. This allows for non-latin-1 users to write unicode strings directly and sets Japanese users free from weird manual escaping <wink> in shift_jis environments. (Reviewed by Martin v. Loewis)
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@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ Core and builtins
- unicode.iswide() and unicode.width() is dropped and the East Asian
Width support is moved to unicodedata extension module.
+- Patch #941229: The source code encoding in interactive mode
+ now refers sys.stdin.encoding not just ISO-8859-1 anymore. This
+ allows for non-latin-1 users to write unicode strings directly.
+
Extension modules
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