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diff --git a/‎Objects/unicodeobject.c‎
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@@ -6011,18 +6011,9 @@ _PyUnicode_DecodeUnicodeEscapeInternal(const char *s,
                 if (namelen) {
                     /* found a name.  look it up in the unicode database */
                     s++;
-
-                    /* map to uppercase before calling getcode, which does
-                     * case-sensitive comparisons */
-                    char buffer[namelen];
-                    size_t i;
-                    for (i = 0; i < namelen; i++) {
-                        buffer[i] = Py_TOUPPER(start[i]);
-                    }
-
                     ch = 0xffffffff; /* in case 'getcode' messes up */
                     if (namelen <= INT_MAX &&
-                        ucnhash_capi->getcode(buffer, (int)namelen,
+                        ucnhash_capi->getcode(start, (int)namelen,
                                               &ch, 0)) {
                         assert(ch <= MAX_UNICODE);
                         WRITE_CHAR(ch);