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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index 6e6064c..17b6d9a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex @@ -629,6 +629,12 @@ changes are: Filenames on Windows are a case where Python's choice of ASCII as the default encoding turns out to be an annoyance. + \item When presented with a Unicode filename on Windows, Python will + now convert it to an MBCS encoded string, as used by the Microsoft + file APIs. As MBCS is explicitly used by the file APIs, Python's + choice of ASCII as the default encoding turns out to be an + annoyance. + This patch also adds \samp{et} as a format sequence to \cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple}; \samp{et} takes both a parameter and an encoding name, and converts it to the given encoding if the @@ -668,6 +674,11 @@ changes are: \item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen. + \item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered + PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier + PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to + show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.) + \item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and @@ -681,7 +692,7 @@ changes are: The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred -Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, +Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum. \end{document} |