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STEALTH_MODE on by default.
- Chinese languages moved from 'big5' and 'gb' to 'zh_TW' and 'zh_CN'
- respectively for compliance to the IANA spec. Note that only zh_CN
- is supported and new translation coming up, while zh_TW is still
- unattended for years.
+ respectively for compliance to the IANA spec. Note, however, that the
+ character sets were changed from 'Big5' or 'GB2312' to 'UTF-8' to cope
+ with the insufficient codecs support in Python 2.3 and earlier. You
+ may have to install Chinese capable codecs (like CJKCodecs) separately
+ to handle the incoming messages which are in local charsets, or upgrade
+ your Python to 2.4 or newer.
- Python 2.4 compatibility issue: time.strftime() became strict about the
'day of year' range. (1078482)