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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
Core and builtins
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+- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
+ \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This
+ affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now
+ UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals
+ and the 'unicode-escape' codec.
+
- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__.