From 57cb68fe93ab99e9dc3fb702755cfd8d914b6834 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lemburg?= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:24:34 +0000 Subject: Add news item about change in encodings search function. --- Misc/NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 869a4d3..3b6c8c6 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- The encodings package will now applies codec name aliases + first before starting to try the import of the codec module. + This simplifies overriding built-in codecs with external + packages, e.g. the included CJK codecs with the JapaneseCodecs + package, by adjusting the aliases dictionary in encodings.aliases + accordingly. + - base64 now supports RFC 3548 Base16, Base32, and Base64 encoding and decoding standards. -- cgit v0.12