[issue1521] string.decode() fails on long strings

[Andreas Eisele]

Andreas Eisele added the comment:

Thanks a lot for the patch, which indeed seems to solve the issue.
Alas, the extended test code still does not catch the problem, at
least in my installation. Someone with a better understanding of
how these tests work and with access to a 64bit machine should 
still have a look.

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