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 - Fix regression in database writer that caused it to strip certain special
-  chracters (characters from Unicode plane > 0).
+  characters (characters from Unicode plane > 0).
 - Fix bug in repair function that caused it to strip non-ASCII characters.
 
 2.0.1 (2016-01-31)