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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
+
 - Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
 
 - Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h,