Fixed unit tests for os.environ. Some of the tests didn't test at all because os.environ was empty.
Added import test for sys.path entries with non ASCII characters. The tests are passing on my Ubuntu box with utf-8 locales but they aren't passing on Windows XP.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 0fe7382..088101f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -191,20 +191,26 @@
 class EnvironTests(mapping_tests.BasicTestMappingProtocol):
     """check that os.environ object conform to mapping protocol"""
     type2test = None
-    def _reference(self):
-        return {"KEY1":"VALUE1", "KEY2":"VALUE2", "KEY3":"VALUE3"}
-    def _empty_mapping(self):
-        os.environ.clear()
-        return os.environ
+
     def setUp(self):
         self.__save = dict(os.environ)
-        os.environ.clear()
+        for key, value in self._reference().items():
+            os.environ[key] = value
+
     def tearDown(self):
         os.environ.clear()
         os.environ.update(self.__save)
 
+    def _reference(self):
+        return {"KEY1":"VALUE1", "KEY2":"VALUE2", "KEY3":"VALUE3"}
+
+    def _empty_mapping(self):
+        os.environ.clear()
+        return os.environ
+
     # Bug 1110478
     def test_update2(self):
+        os.environ.clear()
         if os.path.exists("/bin/sh"):
             os.environ.update(HELLO="World")
             value = os.popen("/bin/sh -c 'echo $HELLO'").read().strip()
@@ -217,6 +223,10 @@
             self.assertEquals(type(key), str)
             self.assertEquals(type(val), str)
 
+    def test_items(self):
+        for key, value in self._reference().items():
+            self.assertEqual(os.environ.get(key), value)
+
 class WalkTests(unittest.TestCase):
     """Tests for os.walk()."""