[Python-checkins] r87134 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
alexander.belopolsky
python-checkins at python.org
Wed Dec 8 22:38:46 CET 2010
Author: alexander.belopolsky
Date: Wed Dec 8 22:38:46 2010
New Revision: 87134
Log:
Edited the Unicode 6.0.0 entry to add unicode.org links and trim the summary.
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
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--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst Wed Dec 8 22:38:46 2010
@@ -1095,20 +1095,23 @@
Python has been updated to Unicode 6.0.0. The new features of the
Unicode Standard that will affect Python users include:
-* adds 2,088 characters, including over 1,000 additional symbols—chief
- among them the additional emoji symbols, which are especially
- important for mobile phones;
+* addition of 2,088 characters, including over 1,000 additional
+ symbols—chief among them the additional emoji symbols, which are
+ especially important for mobile phones;
-* corrects character properties for existing characters including
+* changes to character properties for existing characters including
- a general category change to two Kannada characters (U+0CF1,
U+0CF2), which has the effect of making them newly eligible for
inclusion in identifiers;
- a general category change to one New Tai Lue numeric character
- (U+19DA), which would have the effect of disqualifying it from
- inclusion in identifiers unless grandfathering measures are in place
- for the defining identifier syntax.
+ (U+19DA), which has the effect of disqualifying it from
+ inclusion in identifiers.
+
+ For more information, see `Unicode Character Database Changes
+ <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/#Database_Changes>`_
+ at the `Unicode Consortium <http://www.unicode.org/>`_ web site.
The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and
:func:`~os.fsdecode`. Add :data:`os.environb`: bytes version of
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