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 Core and Builtins
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+- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
+
 - Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
 
 - Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.