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 Core and builtins
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-- Unicode type got two new methods now; iswide() and width(). They
-  manipulate east asian width information from Unicode TR11.
+- Unicode objects received two new methods now; iswide() and width(). They
+  query east asian width information according to Unicode TR11.
 
 - Improved the tuple hashing algorithm to give fewer collisions in
   common cases.  Fixes bug  #942952.