#9230: allow Pdb.checkline() to be called without a current frame, for setting breakpoints before starting debugging.

#9411: allow selecting an encoding for configparser files.  Also adds a new test config file to test special cases.

#6538: fix regex documentation again -- use fictional class names "regex" and "match" but do not document them as classes, remove 1.5 compat info and use new default argument syntax where possible.

#1682942: add some ConfigParser features: alternate delimiters, alternate comments, empty lines in values.  Also enhance the docs with more examples and mention SafeConfigParser before ConfigParser.  Patch by Lukas Langa, review by myself, Eric and Ezio.

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And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape`` before ASCII-to-binary decoding.