Add notes about universal newlines.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3e9e1aa..5abfb42 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@
- The UTF-8 codec will now encode and decode Unicode surrogates
correctly and without raising exceptions for unpaired ones.
+- Universal newlines (PEP 278) is implemented. Briefly, using 'U'
+ instead of 'r' when opening a text file for reading changes the line
+ ending convention so that any of '\r', '\r\n', and '\n' is
+ recognized (even mixed in one file); all three are converted to
+ '\n', the standard Python line end character.
+
- file.xreadlines() now raises a ValueError if the file is closed:
Previously, an xreadlines object was returned which would raise
a ValueError when the xreadlines.next() method was called.
@@ -463,8 +469,10 @@
doc strings from the builtin functions and modules; this reduces the
size of the executable.
-- XXX WITH_UNIVERSAL_NEWLINES Somebody fill this in; the PEP doesn't
- say how or when to configure it, or how to turn it off.
+- The universal newlines option (PEP 278) is on by default. On Unix
+ it can be disabled by passing --without-universal-newlines to the
+ configure script. On other platforms, remove
+ WITH_UNIVERSAL_NEWLINES from pyconfig.h.
- On Unix, a shared libpython2.3.so can be created with --enable-shared.