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  r68805 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-20 08:21:16 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  allow unicode keyword arguments for the ** syntax #4978
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@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
   library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
   the interpreter.  Patch by Stefan Krah.
 
+- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
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 - Issue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.
 
 - Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list