[Numpy-discussion] genfromtxt universal newline support

[Julian Taylor]

genfromtxt and loadtxt need an almost full rewrite to fix the botched
python3 conversion of these functions. There are a couple threads
about this on this list already.
There are numerous PRs fixing stuff in these functions which I
currently all -1'd because we need to fix the underlying unicode
issues first.
I have a PR were I started this for loadtxt but it is incredibly
annoying to try to support all the broken use cases the function
accidentally supported.

1.9 beta still uses the broken functions because I had no time to get
this done correctly.
But we should probably put a big fat future warning into the release
notes that genfromtxt and loadtxt may stop working for your binary
streams.
That will probably allow us to start fixing these functions.