diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2.pot b/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2.pot
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9ae83a801bb248
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2.pot
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2000-01-01 00:00+0000\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"
+
+
+#. ascii text
+#: latin2.py:7
+msgid "foo"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. latin-2 text
+#: latin2.py:10
+msgid "Ř ř"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. non-latin-2 text
+#: latin2.py:13
+msgid "α β"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. ascii text with non-ascii comment
+#. Ř ř
+#: latin2.py:17
+msgid "bar"
+msgstr ""
+
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2.py b/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..bd5422d67f0dc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-2 -*-
+
+from gettext import gettext as _
+
+
+# ascii text
+_('foo')
+
+# latin-2 text
+_('Ø ø')
+
+# non-latin-2 text
+_('\u03b1 \u03b2')
+
+# ascii text with non-ascii comment
+# Ø ø
+_('bar')
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2_escaped.pot b/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2_escaped.pot
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e5621fbf6b86a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings/latin2_escaped.pot
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2000-01-01 00:00+0000\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"
+
+
+#. ascii text
+#: latin2.py:7
+msgid "foo"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. latin-2 text
+#: latin2.py:10
+msgid "\305\230 \305\231"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. non-latin-2 text
+#: latin2.py:13
+msgid "\316\261 \316\262"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. ascii text with non-ascii comment
+#. Ř ř
+#: latin2.py:17
+msgid "bar"
+msgstr ""
+
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_i18n.py b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_i18n.py
index 66c33077423229..87139807b4c516 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_i18n.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_i18n.py
@@ -531,6 +531,9 @@ def extract_from_snapshots():
         'escapes.py': ('--escape', '--add-comments='),
         # Escape only ascii and let unicode pass through:
         ('escapes.py', 'ascii-escapes.pot'): ('--add-comments=',),
+        # Test input files with various encodings:
+        ('encodings/latin2.py', 'encodings/latin2.pot'): ('--add-comments=',),
+        ('encodings/latin2.py', 'encodings/latin2_escaped.pot'): ('--add-comments=', '--escape'),
     }
 
     for filename, args in snapshots.items():
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index e10c78d6403472..80f8b67b400242 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -2644,6 +2644,7 @@ TESTSUBDIRS=	idlelib/idle_test \
 		test/test_tomllib/data/valid/multiline-basic-str \
 		test/test_tools \
 		test/test_tools/i18n_data \
+		test/test_tools/i18n_data/encodings \
 		test/test_tools/msgfmt_data \
 		test/test_ttk \
 		test/test_unittest \