Add news item about Unicode API name mangling.

d3b6a222 · Marc-André Lemburg · f002c2de · d3b6a222
Commit d3b6a222 authored Jul 31, 2001 by Marc-André Lemburg
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  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