diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 2a94586cb9c..104f8f1b07b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -679,6 +679,12 @@ def __str__(self):
     pass
 else:
     raise TestFailed, '"\\".decode("unicode-escape") should fail'
+try:
+    int(u"\u0200")
+except UnicodeError:
+    pass
+else:
+    raise TestFailed, "int(u'\\u0200') failed to raise an exception"
 
 verify(u'hello'.encode('ascii') == 'hello')
 verify(u'hello'.encode('utf-7') == 'hello')