2 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index 7b6883f..ff314b1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -3155,7 +3155,8 @@ class ASCIITest(unittest.TestCase):
             ('[\x80\xff\u20ac]', 'ignore', b'[]'),
             ('[\x80\xff\u20ac]', 'replace', b'[???]'),
             ('[\x80\xff\u20ac]', 'xmlcharrefreplace', b'[€ÿ€]'),
-            ('[\x80\xff\u20ac]', 'backslashreplace', b'[\\x80\\xff\\u20ac]'),
+            ('[\x80\xff\u20ac\U000abcde]', 'backslashreplace',
+             b'[\\x80\\xff\\u20ac\\U000abcde]'),
             ('[\udc80\udcff]', 'surrogateescape', b'[\x80\xff]'),
         ):
             with self.subTest(data=data, error_handler=error_handler,
@@ -3197,7 +3198,8 @@ class Latin1Test(unittest.TestCase):
         for data, error_handler, expected in (
             ('[\u20ac\udc80]', 'ignore', b'[]'),
             ('[\u20ac\udc80]', 'replace', b'[??]'),
-            ('[\u20ac\udc80]', 'backslashreplace', b'[\\u20ac\\udc80]'),
+            ('[\u20ac\U000abcde]', 'backslashreplace',
+             b'[\\u20ac\\U000abcde]'),
             ('[\u20ac\udc80]', 'xmlcharrefreplace', b'[€�]'),
             ('[\udc80\udcff]', 'surrogateescape', b'[\x80\xff]'),
         ):
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 614d214..10cdcc0 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -610,14 +610,25 @@ backslashreplace(_PyBytesWriter *writer, Py_ssize_t prealloc_per_char,
     /* generate replacement */
     for (i = collstart; i < collend; ++i) {
         ch = PyUnicode_READ(kind, data, i);
-        if (ch < 0x100)
-            str += sprintf(str, "\\x%02x", ch);
-        else if (ch < 0x10000)
-            str += sprintf(str, "\\u%04x", ch);
-        else {
-            assert(ch <= MAX_UNICODE);
-            str += sprintf(str, "\\U%08x", ch);
+        *str++ = '\\';
+        if (ch >= 0x00010000) {
+            *str++ = 'U';
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>28)&0xf];
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>24)&0xf];
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>20)&0xf];
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>16)&0xf];
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>12)&0xf];
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>8)&0xf];
+        }
+        else if (ch >= 0x100) {
+            *str++ = 'u';
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>12)&0xf];
+            *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>8)&0xf];
         }
+        else
+            *str++ = 'x';
+        *str++ = Py_hexdigits[(ch>>4)&0xf];
+        *str++ = Py_hexdigits[ch&0xf];
     }
     return str;
 }