bpo-26227: Fixes decoding of host names on Windows from ANSI instead of UTF-8 (GH-25510)
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 23aab59..79559c0 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -5508,7 +5508,7 @@ sock_decode_hostname(const char *name)
#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
/* Issue #26227: gethostbyaddr() returns a string encoded
* to the ANSI code page */
- return PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(name);
+ return PyUnicode_DecodeMBCS(name, strlen(name), "surrogatepass");
#else
/* Decode from UTF-8 */
return PyUnicode_FromString(name);