diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
 Library
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+- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
+  to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
+
 - Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
   but also for functions.