More info about PEP 393 in whatsnew and NEWS
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index f208660..a3abc11 100644
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@@ -49,14 +49,15 @@
This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2.
-PEP XXX: Stub
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PEP 393: Flexible String Representation
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-XXX Give a short introduction about :pep:`393`.
+[Abstract copied from the PEP: The Unicode string type is changed to support
+multiple internal representations, depending on the character with the largest
+Unicode ordinal (1, 2, or 4 bytes). This allows a space-efficient
+representation in common cases, but gives access to full UCS-4 on all systems.
+For compatibility with existing APIs, several representations may exist in
+parallel; over time, this compatibility should be phased out.]
PEP 393 is fully backward compatible. The legacy API should remain
available at least five years. Applications using the legacy API will not
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 025d42a..0b9cfbd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -1261,6 +1261,8 @@
Build
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+- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.
+
- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).