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  r78449 | ezio.melotti | 2010-02-25 19:36:04 +0200 (Thu, 25 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the default encoding.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4292d8d..33601a8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
   UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
   strings.
 
-- Issue #7649: Fix u'%c' % char for character in range 0x80..0xFF, raise an
-  UnicodeDecodeError.
+- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
+  UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using
+  the default encoding.
 
 - Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
   and read operations on write-only file objects.  On Windows, the system C