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  r75272 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-10-06 21:56:32 +0200 (mar., 06 oct. 2009) | 5 lines

  #1571184: makeunicodedata.py now generates the functions _PyUnicode_ToNumeric,
  _PyUnicode_IsLinebreak and _PyUnicode_IsWhitespace.

  It now also parses the Unihan.txt for numeric values.
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  r75273 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-10-06 22:02:09 +0200 (mar., 06 oct. 2009) | 2 lines

  Add Anders Chrigstrom to Misc/ACKS for his work on unicodedata.
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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
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@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
 Albert Chin-A-Young
 Adal Chiriliuc
 Matt Chisholm
+Anders Chrigström
 Tom Christiansen
 Vadim Chugunov
 David Cinege
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
+  The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
+  breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
+  and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
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 - Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
   of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.