Add a workaround for a problem that UTF-8 strings can be corrupted
or broken by basic ctype functions in 4.4BSD descendants. This
will be fixed in their future development branches but they'll keep
the POSIX-incompatibility for their backward-compatiblities in near
future.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c450f63..40c58b3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@
- Implemented bind_textdomain_codeset() in locale module.
+- Added a workaround for proper string operations in BSDs. str.split
+ and str.is* methods can now work correctly with UTF-8 locales.
+
Extension modules
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