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Updated Release Notes

2002-08-30: Bug fix release for beta2.

• Released a new example client for Visual Basic .NET.

• Updated the C# .NET example client
  Colors fixed, exception handling, GoogleSearch proxy now generated via "Add Web Reference" rather than "wsdl.exe".

• Updated WSDL file to correct a bug.
  Visual Studio .NET's "Add Web Reference" feature now supported.

• Added support to Java client for HTTP proxies.
  GoogleSearch has new methods for setting proxy host, port, and
  username and password. Alternately, if the Java system properties
  "http.proxyHost" and "http.proxyPort" are set, those will be used.

• Implemented new mechanism for internationalization and non-ASCII queries.
  Server now correctly handles UTF-8 input and output.

• UTF-8 is now the only supported encoding.
  The APIs server used to handle data in ISO-Latin-1 regardless of what encoding was requested. Now it reads and sends data in UTF-8. Clients that expect ISO-Latin-1 will need to change to handle UTF-8 data instead. This affects clients issuing queries in many Western European languages; non-ASCII characters such as Eszett (U+00df) or e-grave (U+00e8) are now encoded as two bytes of UTF-8, not one byte of ISO Latin-1. ASCII results are unaffected.

• Query parameters <ie> and <oe> are now ignored; UTF-8 everywhere.

• Deprecated Java client methods setInputEncoding() and setOutputEncoding().

• Updated the APIs_Reference.html documentation.
  The section on Input and Output Encodings now notes that UTF-8 is the only supported encoding, and that the <ie> and <oe> parameters are ignored.

• Queries in CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) still do not work completely correctly. A future release will address these problems.