diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py b/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
index 800456e..a8666d3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@
             e = u'\u3406'.encode(encoding)
             self.failIf(filter(lambda x: x >= '\x80', e))
 
+    def test_bug1572832(self):
+        if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000:
+            myunichr = unichr
+        else:
+            myunichr = lambda x: unichr(0xD7C0+(x>>10)) + unichr(0xDC00+(x&0x3FF))
+
+        for x in xrange(0x10000, 0x110000):
+            # Any ISO 2022 codec will cause the segfault
+            myunichr(x).encode('iso_2022_jp', 'ignore')
+
 def test_main():
     suite = unittest.TestSuite()
     suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(Test_MultibyteCodec))