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+2.17 2023-10-21
+[Ko van der Sloot]
+* assume ticcutils >= 0.34 to force NFC normalization
+* refactored str() and unicode() text extraction functions.
+* a lot of work on code quality
+
 2.16 2023-09-21
 [Ko van der Sloot]
 * fix for https://github.com/LanguageMachines/libfolia/issues/54