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 Library
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+- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
+  unicode characters.
+
 - Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
 
 - Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as