Issue #850997: Oops, I forgot the author of the patch: Mark Hammond
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- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
- handlers.
+ handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for