diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
index 3ef354f..203dcef 100644
--- a/Include/unicodeobject.h
+++ b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeCharmap
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1 PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeLatin1
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeFSDefault
+# define PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32 PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF32
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32Stateful PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF32Stateful
@@ -247,6 +248,7 @@
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeCharmap
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1 PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeLatin1
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeFSDefault
+# define PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32 PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF32
 # define PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32Stateful PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF32Stateful
@@ -657,6 +659,12 @@
     const char *s               /* encoded string */
     );
 
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(
+    const char *s,               /* encoded string */
+    Py_ssize_t size              /* size */
+    );
+
+
 /* Return a char* holding the UTF-8 encoded value of the
    Unicode object.
 
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 23268f9..c568a8e 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -1263,10 +1263,14 @@
 }
 
 PyObject*
-PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(const char *s)
-{
+PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(const char *s) {
     Py_ssize_t size = (Py_ssize_t)strlen(s);
+    return PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(s, size);
+}
 
+PyObject*
+PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size)
+{
     /* During the early bootstrapping process, Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding
        can be undefined. If it is case, decode using UTF-8. The following assumes
        that Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is set to a built-in encoding during the
@@ -1274,11 +1278,11 @@
     */
     if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding) {
 #if defined(MS_WINDOWS) && defined(HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T)
-        if (strcmp(Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, "mbcs")) {
+        if (strcmp(Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, "mbcs") == 0) {
             return PyUnicode_DecodeMBCS(s, size, "replace");
         }
 #elif defined(__APPLE__)
-        if (strcmp(Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, "utf-8")) {
+        if (strcmp(Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, "utf-8") == 0) {
             return PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(s, size, "replace");
         }
 #endif
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 13e0a99..d140fe3 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@
 		p = strchr(path, delim);
 		if (p == NULL)
 			p = strchr(path, '\0'); /* End of string */
-		w = PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize(path, (Py_ssize_t) (p - path));
+		w = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(path, (Py_ssize_t) (p - path));
 		if (w == NULL) {
 			Py_DECREF(v);
 			return NULL;