[issue1609] test_re.py fails

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

> Replacing Turkish characters with hex versions in test2.py still results
> in UnicodeDecodeError and works with python 2.4.

I'm hoping Martin can confirm this, but I suspect that this is due to
a tightening of the rules for converting from 8-bit strings to unicode
strings.

What happens if you change to unicode("....", "utf-8")?

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