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  r88697 | victor.stinner | 2011-03-01 23:46:52 +0100 (mar., 01 mars 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V")

  Decode the byte string from UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of
  ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode). Patch written by Ray Allen.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
+  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
+  Patch written by Ray Allen.
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 - Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
   a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.