1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py
index 804fb13..030933f 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ class BuildRpmTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
                        unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
+        try:
+            sys.executable.encode("UTF-8")
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("sys.executable is not encodable to UTF-8")
+
         super(BuildRpmTestCase, self).setUp()
         self.old_location = os.getcwd()
         self.old_sys_argv = sys.argv, sys.argv[:]