Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
filenames and enable os.fsencode().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5a59310..3fd0178 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
+ filenames and enable os.fsencode().
+
- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
(higher than 0x10000).