pythongh-91914: Fix test_curses on non-UTF-8 locale (pythonGH-91919)

miss-islington · serhiy-storchaka · hello-adam · commit 1212b254e55e · 2022-06-02T16:22:05.000-04:00
(cherry picked from commit f41c16b) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -266,7 +266,12 @@ def test_output_character(self):
         stdscr.echochar(b'A')
         stdscr.echochar(65)
         with self.assertRaises((UnicodeEncodeError, OverflowError)):
-            stdscr.echochar('\u20ac')
+            # Unicode is not fully supported yet, but at least it does
+            # not crash.
+            # It is supposed to fail because either the character is
+            # not encodable with the current encoding, or it is encoded to
+            # a multibyte sequence.
+            stdscr.echochar('\u0114')
         stdscr.echochar('A', curses.A_BOLD)
         self.assertIs(stdscr.is_wintouched(), False)
 
