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-rw-r--r--Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py b/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py
index 5ebb273e0..831575b35 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py
@@ -1632,13 +1632,14 @@ class UnicodeNode(ConstNode):
# lone (unpaired) surrogates are not really portable and cannot be
# decoded by the UTF-8 codec in Py3.3
self.result_code = code.get_py_const(py_object_type, 'ustring')
- data_cname = code.get_pyunicode_ptr_const(self.value)
+ data_cname = code.get_string_const(
+ StringEncoding.BytesLiteral(self.value.encode('unicode_escape')))
const_code = code.get_cached_constants_writer(self.result_code)
if const_code is None:
return # already initialised
const_code.mark_pos(self.pos)
const_code.putln(
- "%s = PyUnicode_FromUnicode(%s, (sizeof(%s) / sizeof(Py_UNICODE))-1); %s" % (
+ "%s = PyUnicode_DecodeUnicodeEscape(%s, sizeof(%s) - 1, NULL); %s" % (
self.result_code,
data_cname,
data_cname,