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diff --git a/tests/helpers.py b/tests/helpers.py
index f0859f51..d652fe8e 100644
--- a/tests/helpers.py
+++ b/tests/helpers.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import os
import subprocess
import sys
+from coverage import env
+
def run_command(cmd):
"""Run a command in a sub-process.
@@ -14,6 +16,9 @@ def run_command(cmd):
Returns the exit status code and the combined stdout and stderr.
"""
+ if env.PY2 and isinstance(cmd, unicode):
+ cmd = cmd.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
+
# In some strange cases (PyPy3 in a virtualenv!?) the stdout encoding of
# the subprocess is set incorrectly to ascii. Use an environment variable
# to force the encoding to be the same as ours.