Three patches from issue #1047, by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc:

1/ getargs.diff adds the 'Z' and 'Z#' format specifiers for
PyArg_ParseTuple. They mimic z and z# for unicode strings, by accepting
a Unicode or None (in which case the Py_UNICODE* pointer is set to
NULL). With doc and tests.

2/ subprocess.diff converts file PC/_subprocess.c to unicode. We use the
Unicode version of the win32 api (and Z conversion from previous patch)

3/ stdout.diff: sys.stdout must not convert the line endings, Windows
already does it.
Without this patch, when redirecting the output of python, the file
contains \r\r\n for each line. (test_subprocess did catch this)

However, I (GvR) removed the change to _fileio.c (included in the
patches) that prevents closing file descripors < 3 from being closed;
I think that needs to be solved in a different way.
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 30c54b0..53e859e 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -414,9 +414,9 @@
         def __new__(cls, *args, **kwds):
             return io.open(*args, **kwds)
     __builtin__.open = open
-    sys.__stdin__ = sys.stdin = io.open(0, "r")
-    sys.__stdout__ = sys.stdout = io.open(1, "w")
-    sys.__stderr__ = sys.stderr = io.open(2, "w")
+    sys.__stdin__ = sys.stdin = io.open(0, "r", newline='\n')
+    sys.__stdout__ = sys.stdout = io.open(1, "w", newline='\n')
+    sys.__stderr__ = sys.stderr = io.open(2, "w", newline='\n')
 
 
 def main():