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  r74000 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-13 22:01:11 +0200 (lun., 13 juil. 2009) | 4 lines

  #1616979: Add the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
  Since there is no official mapping file from unicode.org,
  the codec file is generated on Windows with the new genwincodec.py script.
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  r74001 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-13 22:03:21 +0200 (lun., 13 juil. 2009) | 2 lines

  NEWS entry for r74000.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
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 - Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
   object, and not an int.  Fix the corresponding error message, and the
   documentation.