ways in which this was done was to use string.punctuation with locale support t
urned on, stuffing the results into regular expressions.

Unfortunately, the insertion of the punctuation into regular expressions was com
pletely literal.  This meant that, depending on locale, a regex could take on a
completely different semantic due to the fact that it could include "]", "?", et
c.  At times, this could cause a segmentation fault if a nonsensical generated r
egex was especially juicy.

I took out the code which localized punctuation, although the code which localiz
es letters is still there.