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 Core and builtins
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+- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
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 - Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
 
 - Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.