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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
index bac8d36..d80acfe 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
@@ -234,7 +234,9 @@ class PrettyPrintTests(DebuggerTests):
text.encode(encoding)
printable = True
except UnicodeEncodeError:
- self.assertGdbRepr(text, ascii(text))
+ # Workaround ascii() bug on UCS-2 builds: issue #9804
+ asc = "'" + text.encode('unicode-escape').decode('ascii') + "'"
+ self.assertGdbRepr(text, asc)
else:
self.assertGdbRepr(text)