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  r76625 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-12-01 22:51:04 +0100 (mar., 01 déc. 2009) | 3 lines

  #7419: Fix a crash on Windows in locale.setlocale() when the category
  is outside the allowed range.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
+  with invalid values.
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 - Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
   mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).