Fixed "u#" parser marker to pass through Unicode objects as-is without
going through the buffer interface API.
Added tests for this to the _testcapi module and updated docs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1912dc2..4429f8e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
C API
+- The "u#" parser marker will now pass through Unicode object as-is
+ without going through the buffer API.
+
- The enumerators of cmp_op have been renamed to use the prefix PyCmp_.
- An old #define of ANY as void has been removed from pyport.h. This