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Author: jswhit2

Changelog

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  version 1.7.4 (not yet released)
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+ * Make sure automatic conversion of character arrays <--> string arrays works for Unicode strings (issue #1440).
+   (previously only worked correctly for encoding="ascii").
+
  version 1.7.3 (tag v1.7.3rel)
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  * Python 3.14 wheels (issue #1432)