Add news item for the new charmap codecs.

4b6936df · Marc-André Lemburg · 1bdb2f2a · 4b6936df
Commit 4b6936df authored Oct 23, 2005 by Marc-André Lemburg
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@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
 Core and builtins
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+- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
+  new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
+  codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
+  at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
+  encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
+- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings 
 - Speed up some Unicode operations.
 - A new AST parser implementation was completed.