This is accomplished by decoding with utf-32 instead of utf-16 on all builds.
The patch is by Adam Olsen.

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  r75920 | r.david.murray | 2009-10-28 10:03:43 -0400 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 2 lines

  Remove variable that is no longer used.
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  r75913 | eric.smith | 2009-10-28 04:44:37 -0400 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 7117: Replace PyOS_ascii_strtod with PyOS_string_to_double in _json.c as part of short float repr. Change made after consulting with Bob Ippolito. This completes the removal of calls to PyOS_ascii_strtod.
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  r75909 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-28 07:47:32 +0000 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Fix format specifier for MSVC
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  r75905 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-28 07:23:49 +0000 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Replace long long with PY_LONG_LONG
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  r75901 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-28 07:45:18 +0100 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  removed spurious spaces
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  r75893 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-28 00:06:10 +0100 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #1180: Option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils
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  r75887 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 23:56:09 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Make sure every run of test_intern() interns a new string, otherwise that test fails e.g. when some other test in test_builtin fails and it is rerun in verbose mode.
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  r75883 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-27 22:09:33 +0000 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Test long inputs to float
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  r75879 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-27 21:48:20 +0000 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) | 3 lines

  Silence gcc warnings when trying to print an off_t using "lld", on platforms
  where off_t has type long (e.g., 64-bit Linux).
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  r75874 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 22:27:24 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 4 lines

  Reduce the probability of refleaks in test_socketserver.
  Not completely suppressed though, see issue #7222.
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  r75871 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-27 22:20:27 +0100 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32
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  r75866 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 21:52:02 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Add a regrtest option to re-run in verbose mode immediately after a test fails, and use that option on the buildbots.
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  r75867 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 21:55:44 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Reformat the regrtest command-line option help and group the options into sections.
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  r75860 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 21:20:41 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Try to fix transient refleaks in test_distutils.
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  r75855 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 21:14:04 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix transient refleaks in test_urllib2_localnet.
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  r75851 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 21:02:23 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Suppress transient refleaks in test_threading.
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  r75849 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 20:47:30 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Suppress transient refleaks in test_smtplib.
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  r75846 | eric.smith | 2009-10-27 15:42:57 -0400 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Removed PyOS_ascii_atof from marshal.c, as mentioned in issue 7117. Also brings it more in line with py3k.
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  r75844 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 20:36:44 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Suppress transient refleaks in test_file2k.
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  r75842 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 20:23:56 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix transient refleak in test_sys.
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  r75838 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 19:50:52 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  (Hopefully) suppress transient refleaks in test_httpservers.
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  r75826 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 19:36:47 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Suppress transient refleaks in test_asyncore
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  r75824 | eric.smith | 2009-10-27 14:33:14 -0400 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Removed PyOS_ascii_atof from ast.c, as mentioned in issue 7117.
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  r75818 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-27 18:41:58 +0100 (mar., 27 oct. 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several threads at once.
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  r75365 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 22:16:16 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix broken links found by "make linkcheck".  scipy.org seems to be done right now, so I could not verify links going there.
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  r75394 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-13 20:10:59 +0200 (Di, 13 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r75402 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:51:48 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7125: fix typo.
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  r75403 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:57:46 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system().
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  r75418 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 20:48:32 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7116: str.join() takes an iterable.
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  r75459 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-17 10:57:43 +0200 (Sa, 17 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix refleaks in _ctypes PyCSimpleType_New, which fixes the refleak seen in test___all__.
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  r75484 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-18 09:58:12 +0200 (So, 18 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix missing word.
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  r75592 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:05:48 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix punctuation.
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  r75593 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:06:49 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Revert unintended change.
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  r75594 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:02 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r75595 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:56 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix duplicate target.
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  r75596 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 10:05:04 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Add a new directive marking up implementation details and start using it.
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  r75600 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:01:46 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Make it more robust.
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  r75602 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Document new directive.
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  r75603 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:23 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Allow short form with text as argument.
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  r75604 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:36:50 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix stylesheet for multi-paragraph impl-details.
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  Use "impl-detail" directive where applicable.
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  r75606 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:00:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #6324: membership test tries iteration via __iter__.
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  r75607 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:04:09 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7088: document new functions in signal as Unix-only.
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  r75610 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:27:24 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Reorder __slots__ fine print and add a clarification.
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  r75611 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:42:32 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7035: improve docs of the various <method>_errors() functions, and give them docstrings.
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  r75612 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:52:15 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7156: document curses as Unix-only.
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  #6977: getopt does not support optional option arguments.
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  Add proper references.
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  r75617 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:20:55 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Make printout margin important.
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  r75623 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-23 10:14:44 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  #7188: fix optionxform() docs.
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  r75627 | fred.drake | 2009-10-23 15:04:51 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines

  add further note about what's passed to optionxform
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  r75640 | neil.schemenauer | 2009-10-23 21:58:17 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines

  Improve some docstrings in the 'warnings' module.
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  r75647 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-24 12:04:19 +0200 (Sa, 24 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r75696 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-25 21:25:43 +0100 (So, 25 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a demo.
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  r75795 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 16:10:22 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a strange mis-edit.
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  r75745 | eric.smith | 2009-10-27 08:12:44 -0400 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 7117: Replace PyOS_ascii_strtod with PyOS_string_to_double in stropmodule as part of short float repr.
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  Issue 7117: Replace PyOS_ascii_strtod with PyOS_string_to_double in cPickle as part of short float repr.
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  r75739 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-26 22:28:14 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #7117: Use PyOS_string_to_double instead of PyOS_ascii_strtod in
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  r75730 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-26 21:09:09 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #7117:  Backport missing pystrtod.h declarations from py3k.
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  r75731 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-26 21:11:20 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #7117: Use PyOS_string_to_double instead of PyOS_ascii_strtod in
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  r75728 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-26 19:59:23 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 3 lines

  Use correct conversion specifier and length modifier when printing an
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  r75725 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-26 20:16:46 +0100 (lun., 26 oct. 2009) | 4 lines

  Some platforms have rl_completion_append_character but not rl_completion_suppress_append.
  Reported by Mark D.
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  r75722 | eric.smith | 2009-10-26 13:46:17 -0400 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Finished removing _PyOS_double_to_string, as mentioned in issue 7117.
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  r75720 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-26 15:39:50 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7117 (backport py3k float repr) continued:
  Backport pystrtod.c from py3k.
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