News item about the new encoding normalization scheme.

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Marc-André Lemburg 2002-10-04 11:55:21 +00:00
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- Encoding name normalization was generalized to not only
replace hyphens with underscores, but also all other non-alphanumeric
characters (with the exception of the dot which is used for Python
package names during lookup). The aliases.py mapping was updated
to the new standard.
- mimetypes has two new functions: guess_all_extensions() which
returns a list of all known extensions for a mime type, and
add_type() which adds one mapping between a mime type and