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  r81908 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-06-11 23:46:32 +0200 (ven., 11 juin 2010) | 11 lines

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    r81907 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-06-11 23:42:26 +0200 (ven., 11 juin 2010) | 5 lines

    Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
    the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
    (higher than 0x10000).
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
+  the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
+  (higher than 0x10000).
+
 - In the str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too
   large.