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 Package: utf8
 Title: A simple class for storing UTF-8 strings
-Date: 2016-06-14
-Version: 0.0-4
+Date: 2016-08-09
+Version: 0.0-5
 Authors@R: person("Kirill", "Müller", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "krlmlr+r@mailbox.org")
 Description: Implements an S3 class for storing UTF-8 strings, based on regular characters.
 Imports:
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+## utf8 0.0-5 (2016-08-09)
+
+- New `encoding()`, returns `"ASCII"` for pure ASCII strings and behaves identical to `base::Encoding()` otherwise.
+- New `all_utf8()`, returns an atomic logical that indicates if all elements of a character vector are UTF-8 encoded; this includes pure ASCII stringsi (#1).
+- Remove `Encoding<-` override, with documentation (#7).
+
+
 # utf8 0.0-4 (2016-06-14)
 
 - Implement `c.utf8()`.