Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him

Note new Windows installer
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Andrew M. Kuchling 2001-07-31 01:11:36 +00:00
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@ -629,6 +629,12 @@ changes are:
Filenames on Windows are a case where Python's choice of ASCII as
the default encoding turns out to be an annoyance.
\item When presented with a Unicode filename on Windows, Python will
now convert it to an MBCS encoded string, as used by the Microsoft
file APIs. As MBCS is explicitly used by the file APIs, Python's
choice of ASCII as the default encoding turns out to be an
annoyance.
This patch also adds \samp{et} as a format sequence to
\cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple}; \samp{et} takes both a parameter and
an encoding name, and converts it to the given encoding if the
@ -668,6 +674,11 @@ changes are:
\item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks
to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen.
\item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered
PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier
PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to
show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.)
\item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function
to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used
by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and
@ -681,7 +692,7 @@ changes are:
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred
Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
\end{document}