Index: Objects/unicodeobject.c
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--- Objects/unicodeobject.c	(revision 88420)
+++ Objects/unicodeobject.c	(working copy)
@@ -1448,6 +1448,7 @@
         if (strcmp(lower, "utf-8") == 0)
             return PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(s, size, errors);
         else if ((strcmp(lower, "latin-1") == 0) ||
+                 (strcmp(lower, "latin1") == 0) ||
                  (strcmp(lower, "iso-8859-1") == 0))
             return PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1(s, size, errors);
 #if defined(MS_WINDOWS) && defined(HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T)