--- Lib/test/test_locale.py.orig	Sun Sep 13 13:41:23 2015
+++ Lib/test/test_locale.py	Sun Sep 20 10:09:14 2015
@@ -512,8 +512,12 @@ class TestMiscellaneous(unittest.TestCase):
         loc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
         if verbose:
             print('testing with %a' % (loc,), end=' ', flush=True)
-        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, loc)
-        self.assertEqual(loc, locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE))
+        try:
+            locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, loc)
+            self.assertEqual(loc, locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE))
+        except locale.Error:
+            # Unsupported locale setting
+            self.skipTest('unsupported locale setting')
 
     def test_invalid_locale_format_in_localetuple(self):
         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):