#2630: Implement PEP 3138.
The repr() of a string now contains printable Unicode characters unescaped.
The new ascii() builtin can be used to get a repr() with only ASCII characters in it.
PEP and patch were written by Atsuo Ishimoto.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #2630: implement PEP 3138. repr() now returns printable
+ Unicode characters unescaped, to get an ASCII-only representation
+ of an object use ascii().
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- Issue #1342: On windows, Python could not start when installed in a
directory with non-ascii characters.