Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
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+- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
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 - Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
   a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.