CVS of a short while ago, Tru64 Unix: "make test" gives two unicode-related failures: test_unicode test test_unicode crashed -- exceptions.UnicodeError: UTF-8 decoding error: illegal encoding test_unicodedata The actual stdout doesn't match the expected stdout. This much did match (between asterisk lines): ********************************************************************** test_unicodedata Testing Unicode Database... Methods: ********************************************************************** Then ... We expected (repr): '6c7a7c02657b69d0fdd7a7d174f573194bba2e18' But instead we got: '374108f225e0c1488f8389ce6333902830d299fb' test test_unicodedata failed -- Writing: '374108f225e0c1488f8389ce6333902830d299fb', expected: '6c7a7c02657b69d0fdd7a7d174f573194bba2e18' Running the tests manually, test_unicode fails, test_unicodedata doesn't fail, but doesn't match the expected output for Methods: (test_unicode) <deletia> Testing Unicode contains method... done. Testing Unicode formatting strings... done. Testing builtin codecs... Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib/test/test_unicode.py", line 383, in ? verify(u'\ud800\udc02'.encode('utf-8') == \ File "./Lib/test/test_support.py", line 95, in verify raise TestFailed(reason) test_support.TestFailed: test failed (test_unicodedata) python Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py Testing Unicode Database... Methods: 374108f225e0c1488f8389ce6333902830d299fb Functions: 41e1d4792185d6474a43c83ce4f593b1bdb01f8a API: ok -- Mark Favas - m.favas@per.dem.csiro.au CSIRO, Private Bag No 5, Wembley, Western Australia 6913, AUSTRALIA