updated for version 7.4a.008

Problem:    Python 3 doesn't handle multibyte characters prooperly when
	    'encoding' is not utf-8.
Solution:   Use PyUnicode_Decode() instead of PyUnicode_FromString(). (Ken
	    Takata)

Author: brammool

src/if_python3.c

@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
 #ifndef PyString_Check
 # define PyString_Check(obj) PyUnicode_Check(obj)
 #endif
-#define PyString_FromString(repr) PyUnicode_FromString(repr)
+#define PyString_FromString(repr) \
+    PyUnicode_Decode(repr, STRLEN(repr), ENC_OPT, NULL)
 #define PyString_FromFormat PyUnicode_FromFormat
 #ifndef PyInt_Check
 # define PyInt_Check(obj) PyLong_Check(obj)

src/version.c

@@ -728,6 +728,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
 
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
+/**/
+    8,
 /**/
     7,
 /**/