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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 31 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 386e527..b79f2a3 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -573,13 +573,29 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added: and the Unladen Swallow team in :issue:`9410` and :issue:`3873`.) -Filenames and Unicode -===================== +Unicode +======= The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and -:func:`~os.fsdecode`. +:func:`~os.fsdecode`. Add :data:`os.environb`: bytes version of +:data:`os.environ`, :func:`os.getenvb` function and +:data:`os.supports_bytes_environ` constant. + +``'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'`` supports ``'strict'`` and +``'ignore'`` error handlers for decoding, and ``'strict'`` and ``'replace'`` +for encoding. + +On Mac OS X, Python uses ``'utf-8'`` to decode the command line arguments, +instead of the locale encoding (which is ISO-8859-1 if the ``LANG`` environment +variable is not set). -.. XXX mention Victor's improvements for support of undecodable filenames. +By default, tarfile uses ``'utf-8'`` encoding on Windows (instead of +``'mbcs'``), and the ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler on all operating +systems. .. IDLE @@ -642,9 +658,4 @@ require changes to your code: 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. + * Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: it was broken by design. |