The test at Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py:178 checks for len('\U00012345') == 2, and with PEP393 this is always False.
I tried to run the tests with a few changes and they seem to work, but the code doesn't raise any exception on c.reset():

---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8----
import io, codecs
s = io.BytesIO()
c = codecs.getwriter('gb18030')(s)
c.write('123'); s.getvalue()
c.write('\U00012345'); s.getvalue()
c.write('\U00012345' + '\uac00\u00ac'); s.getvalue()
c.write('\uac00'); s.getvalue()
c.reset()
s.getvalue()
---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8----

Result:
>>> import io, codecs
>>> s = io.BytesIO()
>>> c = codecs.getwriter('gb18030')(s)
>>> c.write('123'); s.getvalue()
b'123'
>>> c.write('\U00012345'); s.getvalue()
b'123\x907\x959'
>>> # '\U00012345'[0] is the same of '\U00012345' now
>>> c.write('\U00012345' + '\uac00\u00ac'); s.getvalue()
b'123\x907\x959\x907\x959\x827\xcf5\x810\x851'
>>> c.write('\uac00'); s.getvalue()
b'123\x907\x959\x907\x959\x827\xcf5\x810\x851\x827\xcf5'
>>> c.reset()  # is this supposed to raise an error?
>>> s.getvalue()
b'123\x907\x959\x907\x959\x827\xcf5\x810\x851\x827\xcf5'

Victor suggested to wait until multibytecodec gets ported to the new API before fixing this.

Victor, do you know if multibytecodec has been ported to the new API yet?
If I removed the "if", I still get a failure.

test test_multibytecodec failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/wolf/dev/py/py3k/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py", line 187, in test_gb18030
    self.assertEqual(s.getvalue(), b'123\x907\x959')
AssertionError: b'123\x907\x959\x907\x959' != b'123\x907\x959'

> Victor, do you know if multibytecodec has been ported to the new API yet?

No, it has no. CJK codecs still use the legacy API (Py_UNICODE).

I think these tests have no sense after PEP393. They tests that StreamWriter works with non-BMP characters broken inside surrogate pair. I.e. c.write(s[:i]); c.write(s[i:]) always is same as c.write(s), even if i breaks s inside a surrogate pair. This case is impossible after PEP393.

New changeset 78cd09d2f908 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
Issue #13056: Reenable test_multibytecodec.Test_StreamWriter tests
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/78cd09d2f908

CJK decoders use the new Unicode API since the changeset bcecf3910162.

"I think these tests have no sense after PEP393. They tests that StreamWriter works with non-BMP characters broken inside surrogate pair. I.e. c.write(s[:i]); c.write(s[i:]) always is same as c.write(s), even if i breaks s inside a surrogate pair. This case is impossible after PEP393."

I reenabled tests, but I simplified them to remove parts related to surrogate pairs.

Tests are shorter than before, but it's better than no test at all.

Can I close the issue or someone wants to improve these tests?