GH #290: Unicode support

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 POCO C++ Libraries Release Notes
 AAAIntroduction
 
+!!!Release 1.5.3
+
+!!Summary of Changes
+
+  - fixed GH# 316: Poco::DateTimeFormatter::append() gives wrong result for 
+    Poco::LocalDateTime
+  - Poco::Data::MySQL: added SQLite thread cleanup handler
+  - Poco::Net::X509Certificate: improved and fixed domain name verification for 
+    wildcard domains
+  - added Poco::Clock class, which uses a system-provided monotonic clock
+    (if available) and is thus not affected by system realtime clock changes.
+    Monotonic Clock is available on Windows, Linux, OS X and on POSIX platforms
+    supporting clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.	  
+  - Poco::Timer, Poco::Stopwatch, Poco::TimedNotificationQueue and Poco::Util::Timer
+    have been changed to use Poco::Clock instead of Poco::Timestamp and are now
+    unaffected by system realtime clock changes.
+  - fixed GH# 350: Memory leak in Data/ODBC with BLOB
+  - Correctly set MySQL time_type for Poco::Data::Date.
+  - fixed GH #352: Removed redundant #includes and fixed spelling mistakes. 
+  - fixed setting of MYSQL_BIND is_unsigned value.
+  - fixed GH #360: CMakeLists foundation: add Clock.cpp in the list of source files
+  - Add extern "C" around <net/if.h> on HPUX platform.
+  - added runtests.sh
+  - fixed CPPUNIT_IGNORE parsing
+  - fixed Glob from start path, for platforms not alowing transverse from root (Android)
+  - added NTPClient (Rangel Reale)
+  - added PowerShell build script
+  - added SmartOS build support
+  - fix warnings in headers
+  - XMLWriter: removed unnecessary apostrophe escaping (&apos)
+  - MongoDB: use Int32 for messageLength
+  - fixed GH #380: SecureSocket+DialogSocket crashes with SIGSEGV when timeout occours
+  - Improve RSADigestEngine, using Poco::Crypto::DigestEngine to calculate hash before signing
+  - added Poco::PBKDF2Engine
+  - Fixed GH #380: SecureSocket+DialogSocket crashes with SIGSEGV when timeout occours
+  - added support for a 'Priority' attribute on cookies.
+  - GH #386: fixed bug in MailMessage without content-transfer-encoding header
+  - GH #384: ew hash algorithms support for RSADigestEngine
+  - fixed Clock overflow bug on Windows
+  - Poco::ByteOrder now uses intrinsics, if available
+  - CMake: added /bigobj option for msvc
+  - Fix typo to restore Net/TestSuite_x64_vs120 build
+  - correct path for CONFIGURE_FILE in CMakeLists.txt
+  - Building Poco 1.5.2 for Synology RS812+ (Intel Atom) (honor POCO_NO_INOTIFY)
+  - added WEC2013 support to buildwin.cmd and buildwin.ps1
+  - HTMLForm: in URL encoding, percent-encode more characters
+  - Fixed #include <linux/if.h> conflict with other libraries 
+  - Poco::Net::X509Certificate::verify() no longer uses DNS reverse lookups to validate host names
+  - cert hostname validation is case insensitive and stricter for wildcard certificates
+  - TCPServer: do not reduce the capacity of the default ThreadPool
+  - added POCO_LOG_DEBUG flag
+  - Zip: fixed a crash caused by an I/O error
+  - added runtest script for windows
+  - added SQlite Full Text Search support
+  - added Thread::trySleep() and Thread::wakeUp()
+  - fixed GH #410: Bug in JSON::Object.stringify() in 1.5.2
+  - fixed GH #362: Defect in Var::parseString when there is no space between value and newline
+  - fixed GH #314: JSON parsing bug
+  - added GH #313: MetaColumn additions for Data::ODBC and Data::SQLite
+  - fixed GH #346: Make Poco::Data::Date and Poco::Data::Time compare functions const.
+  - fixed GH #341: Compiling poco-1.5.2 for Cygwin
+  - fixed GH #305: There are bugs in Buffer.h
+  - fixed GH #321: trivial build fixes (BB QNX build)
+  - fixed GH #440: MongoDB ObjectId string formatting
+  - added SevenZip library (Guenter Obiltschnig)
+  - fixed GH #442: Use correct prefix length field of Windows IP_ADAPTER_PREFIX structure
+  - improved GH #328: NetworkInterface on Windows XP
+  - fixed GH #154 Add support for MYSQL_TYPE_NEWDECIMAL to Poco::Data::MySQL
+  - fixed GH #290: Unicode support
+
+!!Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues
+
+  - Data::ODBC: UTF-16 Unicode is now directly mapped and recognized as type by ODBC.
+    This may cause behavior different from previosu versions, especially with Any and 
+	Dynamic::Var bindings.
+ 
+ 
 !!!Release 1.5.2
 
 !!Summary of Changes