From 97047e219ff1bb86acf954515006f20fd99cd657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lemburg?= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:55:21 +0000 Subject: News item about the new encoding normalization scheme. --- Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 757a093..da2c81c 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -340,6 +340,12 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- Encoding name normalization was generalized to not only + replace hyphens with underscores, but also all other non-alphanumeric + characters (with the exception of the dot which is used for Python + package names during lookup). The aliases.py mapping was updated + to the new standard. + - mimetypes has two new functions: guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one mapping between a mime type and -- cgit v0.12