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@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #16416: OS data are now always encoded/decoded to/from
+ UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding (which may be ASCII if
+ no locale environment variable is set), to avoid inconsistencies with
+ os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are already using
+ UTF-8/surrogateescape.
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- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet