Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
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Filenames on Windows are a case where Python's choice of ASCII as
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the default encoding turns out to be an annoyance.
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\item When presented with a Unicode filename on Windows, Python will
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now convert it to an MBCS encoded string, as used by the Microsoft
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file APIs. As MBCS is explicitly used by the file APIs, Python's
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choice of ASCII as the default encoding turns out to be an
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annoyance.
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This patch also adds \samp{et} as a format sequence to
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\cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple}; \samp{et} takes both a parameter and
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an encoding name, and converts it to the given encoding if the
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\item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks
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to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen.
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\item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered
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PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier
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PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to
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show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.)
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\item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function
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to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used
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by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and
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The author would like to thank the following people for offering
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suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred
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Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
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Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
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Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
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\end{document}
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