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+Fixed decoding of host names in :func:`socket.gethostbyaddr` and
+:func:`socket.gethostbyname_ex`.
@@ -5557,7 +5557,7 @@ 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);
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	`1`	+Fixed decoding of host names in :func:`socket.gethostbyaddr` and
	`2`	+:func:`socket.gethostbyname_ex`.