locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
encoding alias table
As sige-effect, this fixes SF bug [ 1080864 ] locale.py doesn't recognize
valid locale setting.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8a710ff..6bf7ab4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
Library
-------
+- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
+ Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
+ alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
+ encoding alias table
+
- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the