in wide builds, avoid storing high unicode characters from source code with surrogates
This is accomplished by decoding with utf-32 instead of utf-16 on all builds.
The patch is by Adam Olsen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 96320f7..030430a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
+ surrogates.
+
- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.