if os.name in ('nt', 'ce'):
# skip win32s (0) or Windows 9x/ME (1)
if sys.getwindowsversion().platform >= 2:
- # Japanese characters (I think - from bug 846133)
- TESTFN_UNENCODABLE = TESTFN + "-\u5171\u6709\u3055\u308c\u308b"
+ # Different kinds of characters from various languages to minimize the
+ # probability that the whole name is encodable to MBCS (issue #9819)
+ TESTFN_UNENCODABLE = TESTFN + "-\u5171\u0141\u2661\u0363\uDC80"
try:
TESTFN_UNENCODABLE.encode(TESTFN_ENCODING)
except UnicodeEncodeError: