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- Make installable on systems that don’t support UTF-8 by default.
- *Backward incompatible*: Drop support for Python older than 2.6, the previous fix gets too convoluted otherwise.
Please don’t use Python < 2.6 anyway.
I beg you.
N.B. that this is a *pure packaging/QA matter*: the module still works perfectly with ancient Python versions.