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More info about PEP 393 in whatsnew and NEWS

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This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2.
PEP XXX: Stub
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PEP 393: Flexible String Representation
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XXX Give a short introduction about :pep:`393`.
[Abstract copied from the PEP: The Unicode string type is changed to support
multiple internal representations, depending on the character with the largest
Unicode ordinal (1, 2, or 4 bytes). This allows a space-efficient
representation in common cases, but gives access to full UCS-4 on all systems.
For compatibility with existing APIs, several representations may exist in
parallel; over time, this compatibility should be phased out.]
PEP 393 is fully backward compatible. The legacy API should remain
available at least five years. Applications using the legacy API will not

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- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.
- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).