Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in append
mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't empty.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
+ library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in append
+ mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't empty.
+
- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
parameters.