Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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+- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
+ instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
+
- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).