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  1. Changes in version 3.2
  2. ======================
  3. :program:`Universal Feed Parser` 3.2 was released on July 3, 2004.
  4. - use :file:`cjkcodecs` and :file:`iconv_codec` if available
  5. - always convert feed to UTF-8 before passing to :abbr:`XML (Extensible Markup Language)` parser
  6. - completely revamped logic for determining character encoding and attempting :abbr:`XML (Extensible Markup Language)` parsing (much faster)
  7. - increased default timeout to 20 seconds
  8. - test for presence of ``Location`` header on redirects
  9. - added tests for many alternate character encodings
  10. - support various :abbr:`EBCDIC` encodings
  11. - support UTF-16BE and UTF16-LE with or without a :abbr:`BOM (Byte Order Mark)`
  12. - support UTF-8 with a :abbr:`BOM (Byte Order Mark)`
  13. - support UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE with or without a :abbr:`BOM (Byte Order Mark)`
  14. - fixed crashing bug if no :abbr:`XML (Extensible Markup Language)` parsers are available
  15. - added support for ``Content-encoding: deflate``
  16. - send blank ``Accept-encoding`` header if neither :file:`gzip` nor :file:`zlib` modules are available