diff -ru fontforge-20090923.orig/fontforge/ffpython.h fontforge-20090923/fontforge/ffpython.h
--- fontforge-20090923.orig/fontforge/ffpython.h	2009-08-06 01:33:51.000000000 +0200
+++ fontforge-20090923/fontforge/ffpython.h	2010-09-06 10:51:46.003385009 +0200
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@
 #define _PyBytes_Eq _PyString_Eq
 #define PyBytes_Format PyString_Format
 #define _PyBytes_FormatLong _PyString_FormatLong
-#define PyBytes_DecodeEscape PyString_DecodeEscape
+#define PyString_DecodeEscape PyString_DecodeEscape
 #define _PyBytes_Join _PyString_Join
-#define PyBytes_Decode PyString_Decode
+#define PyString_Decode PyString_Decode
 #define PyBytes_Encode PyString_Encode
-#define PyBytes_AsEncodedObject PyString_AsEncodedObject
+#define PyString_AsEncodedObject PyString_AsEncodedObject
 #define PyBytes_AsEncodedString PyString_AsEncodedString
 #define PyBytes_AsDecodedObject PyString_AsDecodedObject
 #define PyBytes_AsDecodedString PyString_AsDecodedString
diff -ru fontforge-20090923.orig/fontforge/python.c fontforge-20090923/fontforge/python.c
--- fontforge-20090923.orig/fontforge/python.c	2009-09-12 14:43:32.000000000 +0200
+++ fontforge-20090923/fontforge/python.c	2010-09-06 10:51:46.062259025 +0200
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@
     Py_XINCREF(glyph);
     PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,0,py_ie[ie_index].data);
     PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,1,glyph);
-    PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,2,PyBytes_Decode(filename,strlen(filename),"UTF-8",NULL));
+    PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,2,PyString_Decode(filename,strlen(filename),"UTF-8",NULL));
     PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,3,Py_BuildValue("i",toback));
     result = PyEval_CallObject(py_ie[ie_index].import, arglist);
     Py_DECREF(arglist);
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@
     Py_XINCREF(glyph);
     PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,0,py_ie[ie_index].data);
     PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,1,glyph);
-    PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,2,PyBytes_Decode(filename,strlen(filename),"UTF-8",NULL));
+    PyTuple_SetItem(arglist,2,PyString_Decode(filename,strlen(filename),"UTF-8",NULL));
     result = PyEval_CallObject(py_ie[ie_index].export, arglist);
     Py_DECREF(arglist);
     Py_XDECREF(result);
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@
     free(def);
     if ( ret==NULL )
 Py_RETURN_NONE;
-    reto = PyBytes_Decode(ret,strlen(ret),"UTF-8",NULL);
+    reto = PyString_Decode(ret,strlen(ret),"UTF-8",NULL);
     free(ret);
 return( reto );
 }
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@
     free(def);
     if ( ret==NULL )
 Py_RETURN_NONE;
-    reto = PyBytes_Decode(ret,strlen(ret),"UTF-8",NULL);
+    reto = PyString_Decode(ret,strlen(ret),"UTF-8",NULL);
     free(ret);
 return( reto );
 }
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@
 return( NULL );
     }
     for ( i=0; i<cnt; ++i ) {
-	PyObject *utf8_name = PyBytes_AsEncodedObject(PyTuple_GetItem(answero,i),
+	PyObject *utf8_name = PyString_AsEncodedObject(PyTuple_GetItem(answero,i),
 		    "UTF-8",NULL);
 	if ( utf8_name==NULL )
 return( NULL );
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@
 return( NULL );
     }
     for ( i=0; i<cnt; ++i ) {
-	PyObject *utf8_name = PyBytes_AsEncodedObject(PySequence_GetItem(answero,i),
+	PyObject *utf8_name = PyString_AsEncodedObject(PySequence_GetItem(answero,i),
 		    "UTF-8",NULL);
 	if ( utf8_name==NULL )
 return( NULL );
diff -ru fontforge-20090923.orig/fontforge/pythonui.c fontforge-20090923/fontforge/pythonui.c
--- fontforge-20090923.orig/fontforge/pythonui.c	2009-08-06 01:33:53.000000000 +0200
+++ fontforge-20090923/fontforge/pythonui.c	2010-09-06 10:51:46.066259158 +0200
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 	shortcut_str = PyBytes_AsString(PyTuple_GetItem(args,4));
 
     for ( i=5; i<cnt; ++i ) {
-	PyObject *submenu_utf8 = PyBytes_AsEncodedObject(PyTuple_GetItem(args,i),
+	PyObject *submenu_utf8 = PyString_AsEncodedObject(PyTuple_GetItem(args,i),
 		"UTF-8",NULL);
 	unichar_t *submenuu = utf82u_copy( PyBytes_AsString(submenu_utf8) );
 	Py_DECREF(submenu_utf8);
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
 return( NULL );
 	}
 	for ( i=5; i<cnt; ++i ) {
-	    utf8_name = PyBytes_AsEncodedObject(PyTuple_GetItem(args,i),
+	    utf8_name = PyString_AsEncodedObject(PyTuple_GetItem(args,i),
 			"UTF-8",NULL);
 	    if ( utf8_name==NULL )
 return( NULL );