--- a/upreckon/testcases.py	Wed Jun 06 20:41:44 2012 +0100
+++ b/upreckon/testcases.py	Fri Jun 29 03:32:49 2012 +0300
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Chortos-2 <chortos@inbox.lv>
+# Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Chortos-2 <chortos@inbox.lv>
 
 # TODO: copy the ansfile if not options.erase even if no validator is used
 
@@ -227,12 +227,12 @@
 				case.open_outfile()
 				case.outfile.copy(case.problem.config.ansname)
 			try:
-				case.process = Popen(case.validator, stdin=devnull, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, universal_newlines=True, bufsize=-1)
+				case.process = Popen(case.validator, stdin=devnull, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, bufsize=-1)
 			except OSError:
 				raise CannotStartValidator(sys.exc_info()[1])
 			with signal_ignorer:
 				comment = case.process.communicate()[0].strip()
-			match = re.match(r'(?i)(?:ok|(?:(?:in)?correct|wrong)(?:(?:\s|_)*answer)?)(?:$|\s+|[.,!:]+\s*)', comment)
+			match = re.match(r'(?i)(?:ok|(?:(?:in)?correct|wrong)(?:(?:\s|_)*answer)?)(?:$|\s+|[.,!:]+\s*)'.encode('ascii'), comment)
 			if match:
 				comment = comment[match.end():]
 			if not case.problem.config.maxexitcode: