From 70f88c59eb285f85b8d16b88a75aeeb6b6a2b9ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:17:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix test_os: workaround #8611 bug

---
 Lib/test/test_os.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index cd8a1b973e..4910b1e3a9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -1165,9 +1165,16 @@ class FSEncodingTests(unittest.TestCase):
             decoded = self.get_output(encoding, 'repr(os.fsdecode(%a))' % bytesfn)
             self.assertEqual(decoded, repr(unicodefn))
 
-        check('ascii', b'abc\xff', 'abc\udcff')
         check('utf-8', b'\xc3\xa9\x80', '\xe9\udc80')
-        check('iso-8859-15', b'\xef\xa4', '\xef\u20ac')
+        try:
+            sys.executable.encode("ascii")
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            # Python doesn't start with ASCII locale if its path is not ASCII,
+            # see issue #8611
+            pass
+        else:
+            check('ascii', b'abc\xff', 'abc\udcff')
+            check('iso-8859-15', b'\xef\xa4', '\xef\u20ac')
 
 
 def test_main():
-- 
2.40.0