diff --git a/tests/data/test1034 b/tests/data/test1034
index c475740513..063f52b322 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1034
+++ b/tests/data/test1034
@@ -32,8 +32,12 @@ http
 idn
 </features>
 <setenv>
-CHARSET=UTF-8
+LC_ALL=
+LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 </setenv>
+<precheck>
+perl -MI18N::Langinfo=langinfo,CODESET -e 'die "Needs a UTF-8 locale" if (lc(langinfo(CODESET())) ne "utf-8");'
+</precheck>
  <name>
 HTTP over proxy with malformatted IDN host name
  </name>
diff --git a/tests/data/test1035 b/tests/data/test1035
index 05172ec9a0..033a48a722 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1035
+++ b/tests/data/test1035
@@ -32,14 +32,17 @@ http
 idn
 </features>
 <setenv>
-CHARSET=UTF-8
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=
+LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 </setenv>
+<precheck>
+perl -MI18N::Langinfo=langinfo,CODESET -e 'die "Needs a UTF-8 locale" if (lc(langinfo(CODESET())) ne "utf-8");'
+</precheck>
  <name>
 HTTP over proxy with too long IDN host name
  </name>
  <command>
-http://too-long-IDN-name-cürl-rüles-la-la-la-dee-da-flooby-nooby.local/page/1035 -x %HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT
+http://too-long-IDN-name-cürl-rüles-la-la-la-dee-da-flooby-nooby.local/page/1035 -x %HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT
 </command>
 </client>
 
@@ -50,8 +53,8 @@ http://too-long-IDN-name-c
 ^User-Agent:.*
 </strip>
 <protocol>
-GET http://too-long-IDN-name-cürl-rüles-la-la-la-dee-da-flooby-nooby.local/page/1035 HTTP/1.1
-Host: too-long-IDN-name-cürl-rüles-la-la-la-dee-da-flooby-nooby.local
+GET http://too-long-IDN-name-cürl-rüles-la-la-la-dee-da-flooby-nooby.local/page/1035 HTTP/1.1
+Host: too-long-IDN-name-cürl-rüles-la-la-la-dee-da-flooby-nooby.local
 Accept: */*
 Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
 
diff --git a/tests/data/test165 b/tests/data/test165
index 6fc0ad2d57..b9a1ed7869 100644
--- a/tests/data/test165
+++ b/tests/data/test165
@@ -31,9 +31,12 @@ http
 idn
 </features>
 <setenv>
-CHARSET=UTF-8
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=
+LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 </setenv>
+<precheck>
+perl -MI18N::Langinfo=langinfo,CODESET -e 'die "Needs a UTF-8 locale" if (lc(langinfo(CODESET())) ne "utf-8");'
+</precheck>
  <name>
 HTTP over proxy with IDN host name
  </name>
diff --git a/tests/data/test2046 b/tests/data/test2046
index 0f0eb52c67..dcd202f044 100644
--- a/tests/data/test2046
+++ b/tests/data/test2046
@@ -41,9 +41,12 @@ http
 idn
 </features>
 <setenv>
-CHARSET=UTF-8
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=
+LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 </setenv>
+<precheck>
+perl -MI18N::Langinfo=langinfo,CODESET -e 'die "Needs a UTF-8 locale" if (lc(langinfo(CODESET())) ne "utf-8");'
+</precheck>
  <name>
 Connection re-use with IDN host name
  </name>
diff --git a/tests/data/test2047 b/tests/data/test2047
index f54a30af65..fc140486bc 100644
--- a/tests/data/test2047
+++ b/tests/data/test2047
@@ -42,9 +42,12 @@ http
 idn
 </features>
 <setenv>
-CHARSET=UTF-8
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=
+LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 </setenv>
+<precheck>
+perl -MI18N::Langinfo=langinfo,CODESET -e 'die "Needs a UTF-8 locale" if (lc(langinfo(CODESET())) ne "utf-8");'
+</precheck>
  <name>
 Connection re-use with IDN host name over HTTP proxy
  </name>