[Python-checkins] bpo-34162: Last idlelib/NEWS.txt items for 3.8.0. (GH-16943)

[Terry Jan Reedy]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e31a79a5b44357b409d71949dc5308889970f9ab
commit: e31a79a5b44357b409d71949dc5308889970f9ab
branch: master
author: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-10-26T22:19:57-04:00
summary:

bpo-34162: Last idlelib/NEWS.txt items for 3.8.0. (GH-16943)

files:
M Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 9d26bda42594e..1597eb960b2b4 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ What's New in IDLE 3.8.0 (since 3.7.0)
 Released on 2019-10-20?
 ======================================
 
+bpo-36698: IDLE no longer fails when writing non-encodable characters
+to stderr.  It now escapes them with a backslash, like the regular
+Python interpreter.  Add an errors field to the standard streams.
+
+bpo-13153: Improve tkinter's handing of non-BMP (astral) unicode
+characters, such as 'rocket \U0001f680'.  Whether a proper glyph or
+replacement char is displayed depends on the OS and font.  For IDLE,
+astral chars in code interfere with editing.
+
 bpo-35379: When exiting IDLE, catch any AttributeError.  One happens
 when EditorWindow.close is called twice.  Printing a traceback, when
 IDLE is run from a terminal, is useless and annoying.