FIX: Make sure the tests produce valid unicode

The tests are testing byte order for unicode, so we can only use such unicode
data, so that both versions (swapped and unswapped) are valid unicode.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_unicode.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_unicode.py
index d47ac548b..7b27076e8 100644
--- a/numpy/core/tests/test_unicode.py
+++ b/numpy/core/tests/test_unicode.py
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ else:
             return len(arr.data)
         return len(buffer(arr))
 
+# In both cases below we need to make sure that the byte swapped value (as
+# UCS4) is still a valid unicode:
 # Value that can be represented in UCS2 interpreters
-ucs2_value = u'\uFFFF'
+ucs2_value = u'\u0900'
 # Value that cannot be represented in UCS2 interpreters (but can in UCS4)
-ucs4_value = u'\U0010FFFF'
+ucs4_value = u'\U00100900'
 
 
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