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@@ -1578,6 +1578,11 @@ Other Improvements
to use copies rather than symlinks even on systems where symlinks are the
default. (Contributed by Vinay Sajip in :issue:`18807`.)
+* The encoding name is now optional in the value set for the
+ :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` environment variable. This makes it possible to
+ set just the error handler, without changing the default encoding.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`18818`.)
+
Significant Optimizations
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