Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
ASCII.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9aa0708..71a4509 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
+ handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
+ code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
+ ASCII.
+
- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command-line.
They can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.