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 - Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
   collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
   destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
-  Martin von LÃ¶wis at
+  Martin von Löwis at
   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
 
 - Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.