diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 7b130ca..2840540 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
     # Test PyUnicode_FromFormat()
     def test_from_format(self):
         support.import_module('ctypes')
-        from ctypes import pythonapi, py_object
+        from ctypes import pythonapi, py_object, c_int
         if sys.maxunicode == 65535:
             name = "PyUnicodeUCS2_FromFormat"
         else:
@@ -1451,6 +1451,9 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
             'string, got a non-ASCII byte: 0xe9$',
             PyUnicode_FromFormat, b'unicode\xe9=%s', 'ascii')
 
+        self.assertEqual(PyUnicode_FromFormat(b'%c', c_int(0xabcd)), '\uabcd')
+        self.assertEqual(PyUnicode_FromFormat(b'%c', c_int(0x10ffff)), '\U0010ffff')
+
         # other tests
         text = PyUnicode_FromFormat(b'%%A:%A', 'abc\xe9\uabcd\U0010ffff')
         self.assertEqual(text, r"%A:'abc\xe9\uabcd\U0010ffff'")
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 4567196..423a533 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -813,8 +813,19 @@ PyUnicode_FromFormatV(const char *format, va_list vargs)
 
             switch (*f) {
             case 'c':
+            {
+#ifndef Py_UNICODE_WIDE
+                int ordinal = va_arg(count, int);
+                if (ordinal > 0xffff)
+                    n += 2;
+                else
+                    n++;
+#else
                 (void)va_arg(count, int);
-                /* fall through... */
+                n++;
+#endif
+                break;
+            }
             case '%':
                 n++;
                 break;
@@ -992,8 +1003,18 @@ PyUnicode_FromFormatV(const char *format, va_list vargs)
 
             switch (*f) {
             case 'c':
-                *s++ = va_arg(vargs, int);
+            {
+                int ordinal = va_arg(vargs, int);
+#ifndef Py_UNICODE_WIDE
+                if (ordinal > 0xffff) {
+                    ordinal -= 0x10000;
+                    *s++ = 0xD800 | (ordinal >> 10);
+                    *s++ = 0xDC00 | (ordinal & 0x3FF);
+                } else
+#endif
+                *s++ = ordinal;
                 break;
+            }
             case 'd':
                 makefmt(fmt, longflag, longlongflag, size_tflag, zeropad,
                         width, precision, 'd');