Fix a typo, consistently spell ASCII in all caps, and insert blank
lines between paragraphs in Mark Hammond's news item about the default
encoding in posixmodule. Resist the temptation to reflow paragraphs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b6ee611..9a343ad 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
- Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode
encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs'
as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium
- term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than
+ term, although the default encoding for that platform will be other than
'mbcs'.
- On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for
+
+ On operating system that support non-ASCII filenames, it is common for
functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python
string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for
the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python
would attempt to use its default encoding (generally ASCII) rather than
the default encoding for the file system.
+
In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with
Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as you expect,
increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context.