Comment # 6 on bug 1065270 from Jan Matejek

Created attachment 746044 [details]
less hacky workaround patch

This one seems to be a little better. It limits the workaround behavior to the
error handler, and does not mask errors. The only limitation is that it relies
on the text being UTF8, but the PyUnicode_FromString metod does that too, so
again, no worse than before.