Patch #774665: Make Python LC_NUMERIC agnostic.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b7cf4b4..a93ae18 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Python no longer relies on the LC_NUMERIC locale setting to be
+ the "C" locale; as a result, it no longer tries to prevent changing
+ the LC_NUMERIC category.
+
- Bug #952807: Unpickling pickled instances of subclasses of
datetime.date, datetime.datetime and datetime.time could yield insane
objects. Thanks to Jiwon Seo for a fix.