--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# Test that tac --separator=SEP works if SEP is not ASCII.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
+print_ver_ tac printf
+
+check_separator ()
+{
+ env printf "1$12$13$1" > inp || framework_failure_
+ env printf "3$12$11$1\n" > exp || framework_failure_
+ tac --separator="$(env printf -- "$1")" inp > out || fail=1
+ env printf '\n' >> out || framework_failure_
+ compare exp out || fail=1
+}
+
+export LC_ALL=en_US.iso8859-1 # only lowercase form works on macOS 10.15.7
+if test "$(locale charmap 2>/dev/null | sed 's/iso/ISO-/')" = ISO-8859-1; then
+ check_separator '\xe9' # é
+ check_separator '\xe9\xea' # éê
+fi
+
+export LC_ALL=$LOCALE_FR_UTF8
+if test "$(locale charmap 2>/dev/null)" = UTF-8; then
+ check_separator '\u0434' # д
+ check_separator '\u0434\u0436' # дж
+fi
+
+Exit $fail