[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1066,1.1067

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv25741/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Add a workaround for a problem that UTF-8 strings can be corrupted
or broken by basic ctype functions in 4.4BSD descendants.  This
will be fixed in their future development branches but they'll keep
the POSIX-incompatibility for their backward-compatiblities in near
future.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.1066
retrieving revision 1.1067
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*** NEWS	3 Aug 2004 18:45:31 -0000	1.1066
--- NEWS	4 Aug 2004 06:33:50 -0000	1.1067
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*** 65,68 ****
--- 65,71 ----
  - Implemented bind_textdomain_codeset() in locale module.
  
+ - Added a workaround for proper string operations in BSDs.  str.split
+   and str.is* methods can now work correctly with UTF-8 locales.
+ 
  Extension modules
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