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+<tr><td>2013-11-25:
+    <td>The default character encoding in GF grammar files will be changed
+        from Latin-1 to UTF-8. See
+       <a href="download/encoding-change.html">GF character encoding changes</a>
+        for details.
 <tr><td>2013-10-18:<td>New resource grammar language: Estonian.
     See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>.
 <tr><td>2013-09-18:<td>New <a href="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-contrib">GF contributions repository</a>, hosted on GitHub.