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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index bd38a7e..7d8b2e6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -544,3 +544,10 @@ require changes to your code: opaque C pointers in Python objects, the :ctype:`PyCapsule` API should be used instead; the new type has a well-defined interface for passing typing safety information and a less complicated signature for calling a destructor. + +* mbcs encoding doesn't ignore the error handler argument anymore. By default + (strict mode), it raises an UnicodeDecodeError on undecodable byte sequence + and UnicodeEncodeError on unencodable character. To get the mbcs encoding of + Python 3.1, use ``'ignore'`` error handler to decode and ``'replace'`` error + handler to encode. mbcs now supports ``'strict'`` and ``'ignore'`` error + handlers for decoding, and ``'strict'`` and ``'replace'`` for encoding. |