diff --git a/tests/test-encoding.out b/tests/test-encoding.out
--- a/tests/test-encoding.out
+++ b/tests/test-encoding.out
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 % should fail with encoding error
 M a
-? b.hg
 abort: decoding near 'cii 0xe9: é': 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)!
 
 transaction abort!