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+Fix support of localized error messages reported by :manpage:`dlerror(3)` and
+:manpage:`gdbm_strerror <gdbm(3)>` in :mod:`ctypes` and :mod:`dbm.gnu`
+functions respectively. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.