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Edited the Unicode 6.0.0 entry to add unicode.org links and trim the summary.

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Python has been updated to Unicode 6.0.0. The new features of the
Unicode Standard that will affect Python users include:
* adds 2,088 characters, including over 1,000 additional symbols—chief
among them the additional emoji symbols, which are especially
important for mobile phones;
* addition of 2,088 characters, including over 1,000 additional
symbols—chief among them the additional emoji symbols, which are
especially important for mobile phones;
* corrects character properties for existing characters including
* changes to character properties for existing characters including
- a general category change to two Kannada characters (U+0CF1,
U+0CF2), which has the effect of making them newly eligible for
inclusion in identifiers;
- a general category change to one New Tai Lue numeric character
(U+19DA), which would have the effect of disqualifying it from
inclusion in identifiers unless grandfathering measures are in place
for the defining identifier syntax.
(U+19DA), which has the effect of disqualifying it from
inclusion in identifiers.
For more information, see `Unicode Character Database Changes
<http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/#Database_Changes>`_
at the `Unicode Consortium <http://www.unicode.org/>`_ web site.
The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and
:func:`~os.fsdecode`. Add :data:`os.environb`: bytes version of