[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.491,1.492

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News item about the new encoding normalization scheme.



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+ - Encoding name normalization was generalized to not only
+   replace hyphens with underscores, but also all other non-alphanumeric
+   characters (with the exception of the dot which is used for Python
+   package names during lookup). The aliases.py mapping was updated
+   to the new standard.
+ 
  - mimetypes has two new functions: guess_all_extensions() which
    returns a list of all known extensions for a mime type, and