diff --git a/Parser/parsetok.c b/Parser/parsetok.c
index d8ff6ee..4c3b506 100644
--- a/Parser/parsetok.c
+++ b/Parser/parsetok.c
@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@
 
 	initerr(err_ret, filename);
 
-	if ((tok = PyTokenizer_FromString(s)) == NULL) {
+	if (*flags & PyPARSE_IGNORE_COOKIE)
+		tok = PyTokenizer_FromUTF8(s);
+	else
+		tok = PyTokenizer_FromString(s);
+	if (tok == NULL) {
 		err_ret->error = PyErr_Occurred() ? E_DECODE : E_NOMEM;
 		return NULL;
 	}
diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
index 3d52bed..c4f447d 100644
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -715,6 +715,28 @@
 	return tok;
 }
 
+struct tok_state *
+PyTokenizer_FromUTF8(const char *str)
+{
+	struct tok_state *tok = tok_new();
+	if (tok == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+	tok->decoding_state = STATE_RAW;
+	tok->read_coding_spec = 1;
+	tok->enc = NULL;
+	tok->str = str;
+	tok->encoding = (char *)PyMem_MALLOC(6);
+	if (!tok->encoding) {
+		PyTokenizer_Free(tok);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	strcpy(tok->encoding, "utf-8");
+
+	/* XXX: constify members. */
+	tok->buf = tok->cur = tok->end = tok->inp = (char*)str;
+	return tok;
+}
+
 
 /* Set up tokenizer for file */
 
diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.h b/Parser/tokenizer.h
index df9cbc7..e3328f1 100644
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.h
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 };
 
 extern struct tok_state *PyTokenizer_FromString(const char *);
+extern struct tok_state *PyTokenizer_FromUTF8(const char *);
 extern struct tok_state *PyTokenizer_FromFile(FILE *, char*,
 					      char *, char *);
 extern void PyTokenizer_Free(struct tok_state *);