Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments
when it is linked to the ncurses library. It encodes also Unicode strings to
the locale encoding instead of UTF-8.
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+- Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments
+ when it is linked to the ncurses library. It encodes also Unicode strings to
+ the locale encoding instead of UTF-8.
+
- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
Harring.