diff --git a/tests/unicode/unicode.py b/tests/unicode/unicode.py
index 072e049fde..8ac34ca282 100644
--- a/tests/unicode/unicode.py
+++ b/tests/unicode/unicode.py
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ print(enc, enc.decode() == s)
 
 # printing of unicode chars using repr
 # NOTE: for some characters (eg \u10ff) we differ to CPython
-print(repr("a\uffff"))
-print(repr("a\U0001ffff"))
+print(repr("a\u2000"))
 
 # test invalid escape code
 try: