From 8f6d2253a0885372581f2e889a824d0cf2516bb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 06:17:05 +0000
Subject: Fix escaping of non-ASCII characters.

---
 Objects/stringobject.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Objects/stringobject.c')

diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index dd38ee3c85..c090e9b2d6 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -541,6 +541,7 @@ PyObject *PyString_DecodeEscape(const char *s,
 	end = s + len;
 	while (s < end) {
 		if (*s != '\\') {
+		  non_esc:
 #ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
 			if (recode_encoding && (*s & 0x80)) {
 				PyObject *u, *w;
@@ -656,8 +657,9 @@ PyObject *PyString_DecodeEscape(const char *s,
 #endif
 		default:
 			*p++ = '\\';
-			*p++ = s[-1];
-			break;
+			s--;
+			goto non_esc; /* an arbitry number of unescaped
+					 UTF-8 bytes may follow. */
 		}
 	}
 	if (p-buf < newlen)
-- 
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