diff -rupN setproctitle-1.1.1/tests/setproctitle_test.py /root/setproctitle-1.1.1/tests/setproctitle_test.py
--- setproctitle-1.1.1/tests/setproctitle_test.py	2011-02-03 00:04:16.000000000 +0100
+++ /root/setproctitle-1.1.1/tests/setproctitle_test.py	2011-03-25 17:40:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDO
 IS_PY3K = sys.version_info[0] == 3
 
 try:
-    from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
+    from unittest import SkipTest
 except ImportError:
     try:
-        from unittest import SkipTest
+        from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
     except ImportError:
         class SkipTest(Exception):
             pass
@@ -162,9 +162,17 @@ class SetproctitleTestCase(unittest.Test
 
     def test_unicode(self):
         """Title can contain unicode characters."""
-        if 'utf-8' != sys.getdefaultencoding():
-            raise SkipTest("encoding '%s' can't deal with snowmen"
+        snowman = u'\u2603'
+        try:
+            snowman.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding())
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            raise SkipTest("default encoding '%s' can't deal with snowmen"
                     % sys.getdefaultencoding())
+        try:
+            snowman.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            raise SkipTest("file system encoding '%s' can't deal with snowmen"
+                    % sys.getfilesystemencoding())
 
         rv = self.run_script(r"""
             snowman = u'\u2603'