gh-91904: Fix setting envvar PYTHONREGRTEST_UNICODE_GUARD (GH-91905)

It always failed on non-UTF-8 locale and prevented running regrtests.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py b/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
index 4ffd154..cfc1b82 100644
--- a/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
+++ b/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import signal
 import sys
 import unittest
 from test import support
+from test.support.os_helper import TESTFN_UNDECODABLE, FS_NONASCII
 try:
     import gc
 except ImportError:
@@ -104,10 +105,10 @@ def setup_tests(ns):
 
     # Ensure there's a non-ASCII character in env vars at all times to force
     # tests consider this case. See BPO-44647 for details.
-    os.environ.setdefault(
-        UNICODE_GUARD_ENV,
-        "\N{SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES}",
-    )
+    if TESTFN_UNDECODABLE and os.supports_bytes_environ:
+        os.environb.setdefault(UNICODE_GUARD_ENV.encode(), TESTFN_UNDECODABLE)
+    elif FS_NONASCII:
+        os.environ.setdefault(UNICODE_GUARD_ENV, FS_NONASCII)
 
 
 def replace_stdout():
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py b/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py
index babc8a6..15e2f89 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py
@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ class ArgsTestCase(BaseTestCase):
     def test_unicode_guard_env(self):
         guard = os.environ.get(setup.UNICODE_GUARD_ENV)
         self.assertIsNotNone(guard, f"{setup.UNICODE_GUARD_ENV} not set")
-        if guard != "\N{SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES}":
+        if guard.isascii():
             # Skip to signify that the env var value was changed by the user;
             # possibly to something ASCII to work around Unicode issues.
             self.skipTest("Modified guard")