diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index f79b2f0edaf..6335a129bda 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ def test_codecs(self):
         # Roundtrip safety for non-BMP (just a few chars)
         u = '\U00010001\U00020002\U00030003\U00040004\U00050005'
         for encoding in ('utf-8', 'utf-16', 'utf-16-le', 'utf-16-be',
-                         #'raw_unicode_escape',
+                         'raw_unicode_escape',
                          'unicode_escape', 'unicode_internal'):
             self.assertEqual(str(u.encode(encoding),encoding), u)