[issue3745] _sha256 et al. encode to UTF-8 by default

[Gregory P. Smith]

Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> added the comment:

lemburg - see which issue #?

Anyways perhaps the right thing to do instead of trunk r65961 would have 
been to change the s# to an s*.

Undoing it will be more painful now as several changes have gone in since 
that require undoing and possibly redoing differently.

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