Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
+ arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
+ does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.
+
- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and