Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
Note new Windows installer
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
index 6e6064c..17b6d9a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
@@ -629,6 +629,12 @@
Filenames on Windows are a case where Python's choice of ASCII as
the default encoding turns out to be an annoyance.
+ \item When presented with a Unicode filename on Windows, Python will
+ now convert it to an MBCS encoded string, as used by the Microsoft
+ file APIs. As MBCS is explicitly used by the file APIs, Python's
+ choice of ASCII as the default encoding turns out to be an
+ annoyance.
+
This patch also adds \samp{et} as a format sequence to
\cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple}; \samp{et} takes both a parameter and
an encoding name, and converts it to the given encoding if the
@@ -668,6 +674,11 @@
\item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks
to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen.
+ \item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered
+ PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier
+ PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to
+ show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.)
+
\item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function
to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used
by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and
@@ -681,7 +692,7 @@
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred
-Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
+Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
\end{document}