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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index bc5e84e..301f122 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -661,6 +661,23 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added: Unicode ======= +Python has been updated to Unicode 6.0.0. The new features of the +Unicode Standard that will affect Python users include: + +* adds 2,088 characters, including over 1,000 additional symbols—chief +among them the additional emoji symbols, which are especially +important for mobile phones; + +* corrects character properties for existing characters including + - a general category change to two Kannada characters (U+0CF1, +U+0CF2), which has the effect of making them newly eligible for +inclusion in identifiers; + + - a general category change to one New Tai Lue numeric character +(U+19DA), which would have the effect of disqualifying it from +inclusion in identifiers unless grandfathering measures are in place +for the defining identifier syntax. + The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and :func:`~os.fsdecode`. Add :data:`os.environb`: bytes version of :data:`os.environ`, :func:`os.getenvb` function and |