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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 725d483..e43ffb2 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -1095,20 +1095,23 @@ 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; +* addition of 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 +* changes to 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. + (U+19DA), which has the effect of disqualifying it from + inclusion in identifiers. + + For more information, see `Unicode Character Database Changes + <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/#Database_Changes>`_ + at the `Unicode Consortium <http://www.unicode.org/>`_ web site. The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and :func:`~os.fsdecode`. Add :data:`os.environb`: bytes version of |