diff --git a/Lib/test/test_zipfile/test_core.py b/Lib/test/test_zipfile/test_core.py
index ae898150658565..fbd89995fd05b0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_zipfile/test_core.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zipfile/test_core.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import importlib.util
 import io
 import itertools
+import locale
 import os
 import posixpath
 import stat
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@
 )
 from test.support.import_helper import ensure_lazy_imports
 
-
 TESTFN2 = TESTFN + "2"
 TESTFNDIR = TESTFN + "d"
 FIXEDTEST_SIZE = 1000
@@ -3631,6 +3631,7 @@ def test_cli_with_metadata_encoding(self):
         for name in self.file_names:
             self.assertIn(name, listing)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(locale.getpreferredencoding().lower() != 'utf-8', 'test requires utf-8')
     def test_cli_with_metadata_encoding_extract(self):
         os.mkdir(TESTFN2)
         self.addCleanup(rmtree, TESTFN2)