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@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ Core
apply bounds checking on the used buffer which enhances protection
against buffer overruns.
+- Unicode APIs now use name mangling to assure that mixing interpreters
+ and extensions using different Unicode widths is rendered next to
+ impossible. Trying to import an incompatible Unicode-aware extension
+ will result in an ImportError. Unicode extensions writers must make
+ sure to check the Unicode width compatibility in their extensions by
+ using at least one of the mangled Unicode APIs in the extension.
+
Library
- New function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr(): Quote an XML attribute