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Describe the IPython situation in What's New docs.
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@@ -57,6 +57,16 b' maintained separately and updated from the main codebase. Its code can be found'
57 57 `here <https://github.com/ipython/ipython-py3k>`_. Note that the parallel
58 58 computing features do not yet work in Python 3.
59 59
60 Unicode
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62
63 Entering non-ascii characters in unicode literals (``u"€ø"``) now works properly
64 on all platforms. However, entering these in byte/string literals (``"€ø"``)
65 will not work as expected on Windows (or any platform where the terminal encoding
66 is not UTF-8, as it typically is for Linux & Mac OS X). You can use escape sequences
67 (``"\xe9\x82"``) to get bytes above 128, or use unicode literals and encode
68 them. This is a limitation of Python 2 which we cannot easily work around.
69
60 70 New features
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