whatsnew: encoding is now optional in PYTHONIOENCODING (#18818)

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  to use copies rather than symlinks even on systems where symlinks are the
  default.  (Contributed by Vinay Sajip in :issue:`18807`.)

+* The encoding name is now optional in the value set for the
+  :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` environment variable.  This makes it possible to
+  set just the error handler, without changing the default encoding.
+  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`18818`.)
+

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