Locale data that contains regex metacharacters are now properly escaped.
Closes bug #1039270.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7927036..81db100 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
Library
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+- time.strptime() now properly escapes timezones and all other locale-specific
+ strings for regex-specific symbols. Was breaking under Japanese Windows when
+ the timezone was specified as "Tokyo (standard time)".
+ Closes bug #1039270.
+
- Updates for the email package:
+ All deprecated APIs that in email 2.x issued warnings have been removed:
_encoder argument to the MIMEText constructor, Message.add_payload(),