From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:41:00 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Mention incompatible change in url-http-create-request.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.1-rc2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e524034f778d404268adde25b6f7d2bd22c67e0;p=emacs.git

; * etc/NEWS: Mention incompatible change in url-http-create-request.
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9f97d764aee..4c14e20e157 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1265,6 +1265,12 @@ Emacs 24.2 and earlier, which did not support unary '/'.
 that happen, 'unhandled-file-name-directory' now defaults to calling
 'file-name-as-directory'.
 
+** The URL package now insists on sending only unibyte strings to server
+This means packages that use URL cannot bind `url-request-data' to
+multibyte strings.  If non-ASCII characters should be part of the URL
+payload, then `url-request-data' should be encoded to become a unibyte
+string.
+
 
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 25.1