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  r67934 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 02:08:47 -0500 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix issue #4730: cPickle corrupts high-unicode strings.
  Update outdated copy of PyUnicode_EncodeRawUnicodeEscape.
  Add a test case.
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  r67935 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 02:13:01 -0500 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Misc/NEWS entry for r67934.
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 - Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
   to claiming it is Mature.
 
+- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
+  when protocol 0 is used.
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