[issue18870] eval() uses latin-1 to decode str

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

$ python
Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 19 2013, 18:28:01) 
[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> eval("u'ä'")
u'\xc3\xa4'
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
'UTF-8'

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