From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:26:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #13415: test_curses skips unencodable characters
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~720
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1b097f8844d5e711c55874baba45b792cf46055;p=python

Issue #13415: test_curses skips unencodable characters
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
index ce09855ac5..21ac6089fc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_curses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -267,11 +267,18 @@ def test_issue6243(stdscr):
 def test_unget_wch(stdscr):
     if not hasattr(curses, 'unget_wch'):
         return
+    import locale
+    encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
     for ch in ('a', '\xe9', '\u20ac', '\U0010FFFF'):
+        try:
+            ch.encode(encoding)
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            continue
         try:
             curses.unget_wch(ch)
         except Exception as err:
-            raise Exception("unget_wch(%a) failed: %s" % (ch, err))
+            raise Exception("unget_wch(%a) failed with locale encoding %s: %s"
+                            % (ch, encoding, err))
         read = stdscr.get_wch()
         read = chr(read)
         if read != ch: