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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 2 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index f2086601f8..a3abc11b00 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -49,14 +49,15 @@ This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2. -PEP XXX: Stub -============= - - PEP 393: Flexible String Representation ======================================= -XXX Give a short introduction about :pep:`393`. +[Abstract copied from the PEP: The Unicode string type is changed to support +multiple internal representations, depending on the character with the largest +Unicode ordinal (1, 2, or 4 bytes). This allows a space-efficient +representation in common cases, but gives access to full UCS-4 on all systems. +For compatibility with existing APIs, several representations may exist in +parallel; over time, this compatibility should be phased out.] PEP 393 is fully backward compatible. The legacy API should remain available at least five years. Applications using the legacy API will not @@ -1261,6 +1261,8 @@ Library Build ----- +- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed. + - Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008 functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir). |