[Py-howto-checkins] CVS: pyhowto python-22.tex,1.17,1.18

[A.M. K. <aku...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/py-howto/pyhowto
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv25014

Modified Files:
	python-22.tex 
Log Message:
Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
Note new Windows installer


Index: python-22.tex
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RCS file: /cvsroot/py-howto/pyhowto/python-22.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -C2 -r1.17 -r1.18
*** python-22.tex	2001/07/20 18:34:34	1.17
--- python-22.tex	2001/07/31 01:11:36	1.18
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    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
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    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 
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  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,
  Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.  
  
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  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., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
  Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.