Artifact 3d37a55bcd7433712d58c5415c5cc3ca9004b4f7

Ticket change [3d37a55bcd] - Ticket 3984e3768d Support for non-UTF encodings status still Open with 1 other change by kkinnell on 2009-04-07 15:19:39.

D 2009-04-07T15:19:39
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K 3984e3768ddbf470e62e6af98715a33abad17b49
U kkinnell
Z 64163a24ea508d739183c2397e27e6d3