[issue42495] socket.gethostbyaddr raises error if invalid unicode in hosts

[Peter Hunt]

Peter Hunt <peter at huntfx.uk> added the comment:

Ah, I just realised it may have been a different dash to the one that can be typed with the keyboard.

>From the wiki article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash), using either the "en" or "em" dash will cause the issue for me on Windows.

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