diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file.py b/Lib/test/test_file.py
index 1497675..fbfba64 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_file.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_file.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def testReadinto_text(self):
         # verify readinto refuses text files
         a = array('b', b'x'*10)
         self.f.close()
-        self.f = self.open(TESTFN, 'r')
+        self.f = self.open(TESTFN, encoding="utf-8")
         if hasattr(self.f, "readinto"):
             self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.f.readinto, a)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file_eintr.py b/Lib/test/test_file_eintr.py
index f1efd26..01408d8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_file_eintr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_file_eintr.py
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ class TestTextIOSignalInterrupt(TestFileIOSignalInterrupt):
     def _generate_infile_setup_code(self):
         """Returns the infile = ... line of code to make a TextIOWrapper."""
         return ('import %s as io ;'
-                'infile = io.open(sys.stdin.fileno(), "rt", newline=None) ;'
+                'infile = io.open(sys.stdin.fileno(), encoding="utf-8", newline=None) ;'
                 'assert isinstance(infile, io.TextIOWrapper)' %
                 self.modname)