[3.7] bpo-34347: Fix test_utf8_mode.test_cmd_line for AIX (GH-8923) (GH-14233)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_utf8_mode.py b/Lib/test/test_utf8_mode.py
index 554abfab3163159ea021c6d181bcef8374bffa56..06fe1979ddcc70504a033d793ee88c9cd7d6f8bd 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_utf8_mode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_utf8_mode.py
@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ class UTF8ModeTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
         if sys.platform == 'darwin' or support.is_android:
             c_arg = arg_utf8
+        elif sys.platform.startswith("aix"):
+            c_arg = arg.decode('iso-8859-1')
         else:
             c_arg = arg_ascii
         for loc in POSIX_LOCALES:

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-08-25-13-28-18.bpo-34347.IsRDPB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-08-25-13-28-18.bpo-34347.IsRDPB.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..e581f60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-08-25-13-28-18.bpo-34347.IsRDPB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix ``test_utf8_mode.test_cmd_line`` for AIX.  Patch by M. Felt