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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's new in Python 3.0b1?
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue 2798: When parsing arguments with PyArg_ParseTuple, the "s" code now
+  allows any unicode string and returns a utf-8 encoded buffer, just like the
+  "s#" code already does.  The "z" code was corrected as well.
+
 - Issue 2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
   was sometimes incorrectly raised.