TST: unicode codec test issue, GH #680

Author: wesm

Diff for: pandas/tests/test_frame.py

@@ -1844,8 +1844,12 @@ def test_to_string_unicode_two(self):
     def test_to_string_with_formatters_unicode(self):
         df = DataFrame({u'c/\u03c3':[1,2,3]})
         result = df.to_string(formatters={u'c/\u03c3': lambda x: '%s' % x})
-        assert(result in ('  c/\xcf\x83\n0 1   \n1 2   \n2 3   ',
-                          '  c/?\n0 1   \n1 2   \n2 3   ' ))
+        unicode_version = u'  c/\u03c3\x83\n0 1   \n1 2   \n2 3   '
+        assert(result in
+               ('  c/\xcf\x83\n0 1   \n1 2   \n2 3   ',
+                unicode_version.encode('cp437', 'replace'),
+                unicode_version.encode('latin1', 'replace'),
+                '  c/?\n0 1   \n1 2   \n2 3   ' ))
 
     def test_head_tail(self):
         assert_frame_equal(self.frame.head(), self.frame[:5])