From 48dbfe9aa2054e92211e7b3e92508aafe8f36fa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lemburg?= Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:37:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add news item about Unicode API name mangling. --- Misc/NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index ac32e43bea7..51b211de065 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ Core apply bounds checking on the used buffer which enhances protection against buffer overruns. +- Unicode APIs now use name mangling to assure that mixing interpreters + and extensions using different Unicode widths is rendered next to + impossible. Trying to import an incompatible Unicode-aware extension + will result in an ImportError. Unicode extensions writers must make + sure to check the Unicode width compatibility in their extensions by + using at least one of the mangled Unicode APIs in the extension. + Library - New function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr(): Quote an XML attribute