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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
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--- a/Misc/ACKS
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@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ Craig Rowland
 Paul Rubin
 Sam Ruby
 Audun S. Runde
+Rauli Ruohonen
 Jeff Rush
 Sam Rushing
 Mark Russell
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ Installation
 Library
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+- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
+  string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
+  Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
+
 - Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
   at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
   initialized before.