* Decode thousands separator and decimal point using PyUnicode_DecodeLocale()
   (from the locale encoding), instead of decoding them implicitly from latin1
 * Remove _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGroupingLocale(), it was not used
 * Change _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping() API to return the maximum
   character if unicode is NULL
 * Replace MIN/MAX macros by Py_MIN/Py_MAX
 * stringlib/undef.h undefines STRINGLIB_IS_UNICODE
 * stringlib/localeutil.h only supports Unicode

It is faster than the unicode_fill() function which was implemented in
formatter_unicode.c.

 * Create copy_characters() function which doesn't check for the maximum
   character in release mode
 * _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() is no more static to be able to use it
   in _PyUnicode_FormatAdvanced() (in formatter_unicode.c)
 * _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() checks the string hash

ucs1, ucs2 and ucs4 libraries have to scan created substring to find the
maximum character, whereas it is not need to ASCII strings. Because ASCII
strings are common, it is useful to optimize ASCII.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r75441 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-15 20:55:18 +0100 (Thu, 15 Oct 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 75440 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r75440 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-15 18:45:39 +0100 (Thu, 15 Oct 2009) | 1 line

    Allow core Python build to succeed under WITHOUT_COMPLEX.  The module build stage still fails.
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r75440 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-15 18:45:39 +0100 (Thu, 15 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Allow core Python build to succeed under WITHOUT_COMPLEX.  The module build stage still fails.
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Known issues:

The string.Formatter class, as discussed in the PEP, is incomplete.

Error handling needs to conform to the PEP.

Need to fix this warning that I introduced in Python/formatter_unicode.c:
Objects/stringlib/unicodedefs.h:26: warning: `STRINGLIB_CMP' defined but not used

Need to make sure sign formatting is correct, more tests needed.

Need to remove '()' sign formatting, left over from an earlier version of the PEP.