Issue #3696: Error parsing arguments on OpenBSD <= 4.4 and Cygwin.
Patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, reviewed by me.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b1aafac..111450d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3696: Error parsing arguments on OpenBSD <= 4.4 and Cygwin. On
+ these systems, the mbstowcs() function is slightly buggy and must be
+ replaced with strlen() for the purpose of counting of number of wide
+ characters needed to represent the multi-byte character string.
+
- Issue #3697: "Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow"
could be easily encountered under Windows in debug mode when exercising
the recursion limit checking code, due to bogus handling of recursion