diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index cee819c..57420ff 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -305,6 +305,12 @@
             ]
         )
 
+    def test_handlers(self):
+        self.assertEqual((u'\ufffd', 1),
+                         codecs.utf_32_decode('\x01', 'replace', True))
+        self.assertEqual((u'', 1),
+                         codecs.utf_32_decode('\x01', 'ignore', True))
+
     def test_errors(self):
         self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, codecs.utf_32_decode,
                           "\xff", "strict", True)
@@ -422,6 +428,12 @@
             ]
         )
 
+    def test_handlers(self):
+        self.assertEqual((u'\ufffd', 1),
+                         codecs.utf_16_decode('\x01', 'replace', True))
+        self.assertEqual((u'', 1),
+                         codecs.utf_16_decode('\x01', 'ignore', True))
+
     def test_errors(self):
         self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, codecs.utf_16_decode, "\xff", "strict", True)