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commit 614b64e102b37a9d3752d1bab1bcaf75717351c3
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Feb 2 18:42:19 2011 +0100

    Update `NEWS'.
    
    * NEWS: Update.

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Summary of changes:
 NEWS |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 63df7db..73ef153 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -63,7 +63,13 @@ The GOOPS manual saw a lot of work, as well as documentation 
for the
 
 ** Guile uses iconv directly for reading from and writing to ports.
 
-[What does this mean for users?]
+In addition to providing faster Unicode I/O (e.g., `display',
+`read-char'), this change improves error reporting.
+
+For instance, the `encoding-error' exception conveys information about
+the port and character that could not be encoded.  Likewise, the new
+`decoding-error' exception conveys information about the port from which
+data failed to be decoded, and leaves the port in a known position.
 
 ** Source files default to UTF-8.
 
@@ -211,6 +217,11 @@ that NaNs _are_ considered numbers by scheme, despite 
their name).
 
 These predicates are now implemented in accordance with R6RS.
 
+** R6RS textual I/O procedures raise R6RS error conditions
+
+R6RS procedures `get-char', `put-string', etc. now raise the correct
+R6RS error coding, i.e., `&i/o-decoding-error' or `&i/o-encoding-error'.
+
 ** New reader option: `hungry-eol-escapes'
 
 Guile's string syntax is more compatible with R6RS when the


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