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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Oct 23 10:21:21 2014  Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
+
+	* NEWS: Added String#unicode_normalize(|!|d?) [ci skip]
+
 Thu Oct 23 03:41:51 2014  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* class.c (unknown_keyword_error): delete expected keywords
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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   * Process creation methods, such as spawn(), uses vfork() system call.
     vfork() is faster than fork() when the parent process uses huge memory.
 
+* String
+  * New methods:
+    * String#unicode_normalize
+    * String#unicode_normalize!
+    * String#unicode_normalized?
+
 * Symbol
   * Improvements
     * Most symbols which are returned by String#to_sym and