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authorHye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>2004-08-04 06:33:51 (GMT)
committerHye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>2004-08-04 06:33:51 (GMT)
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Add a workaround for a problem that UTF-8 strings can be corrupted
or broken by basic ctype functions in 4.4BSD descendants. This will be fixed in their future development branches but they'll keep the POSIX-incompatibility for their backward-compatiblities in near future.
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@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ Core and builtins
- Implemented bind_textdomain_codeset() in locale module.
+- Added a workaround for proper string operations in BSDs. str.split
+ and str.is* methods can now work correctly with UTF-8 locales.
+
Extension modules
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