diff --git a/tests/handle_unicode.py b/tests/handle_unicode.py
index 1889c004..820c8181 100644
--- a/tests/handle_unicode.py
+++ b/tests/handle_unicode.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def runTest(self):
         # pylint: disable=environment-modify
         # Make sure the locale is reset so that the traceback could happen
         del os.environ["LANG"]
-        locale.resetlocale()
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
 
         # parser should parse string including non-ascii characters
         self.parser.readKickstartFromString(self.ks)