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+[submodule "src/ext/uchardet"]
+	path = src/ext/uchardet
+	url = https://github.com/PyYoshi/uchardet.git
diff --git a/src/ext/uchardet b/src/ext/uchardet
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+Subproject commit cff7f2a9cd03c391273d7e5103f219f0870b9034