@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ _Py_wchar2char(const wchar_t *text, size_t *error_pos)
if (unicode == NULL)
return NULL;
bytes = _PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(unicode, "surrogateescape");
bytes = PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8(PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(unicode),
PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(unicode),
"surrogateescape");
Py_DECREF(unicode);
if (bytes == NULL) {
PyErr_Clear();