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diff --git a/‎testing/resources/not_installable_repo/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml‎
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diff --git a/‎testing/resources/not_installable_repo/setup.py‎
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diff --git a/‎tests/commands/run_test.py‎
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diff --git a/‎tests/languages/helpers_test.py‎
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@@ -479,31 +479,6 @@ def test_stdout_write_bug_py26(
         assert 'UnicodeDecodeError' not in stdout
 
 
-def test_hook_install_failure(mock_out_store_directory, tempdir_factory):
-    git_path = make_consuming_repo(tempdir_factory, 'not_installable_repo')
-    with cwd(git_path):
-        install(Runner(git_path, C.CONFIG_FILE))
-
-        _, stdout, _ = cmd_output_mocked_pre_commit_home(
-            'git', 'commit', '-m', 'Commit!',
-            # git commit puts pre-commit to stderr
-            stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
-            retcode=None,
-            encoding=None,
-            tempdir_factory=tempdir_factory,
-        )
-        assert b'UnicodeDecodeError' not in stdout
-        # Doesn't actually happen, but a reasonable assertion
-        assert b'UnicodeEncodeError' not in stdout
-
-        # Sanity check our output
-        assert (
-            b'An unexpected error has occurred: CalledProcessError: ' in
-            stdout
-        )
-        assert '☃'.encode('UTF-8') + '²'.encode('latin1') in stdout
-
-
 def test_lots_of_files(mock_out_store_directory, tempdir_factory):
     # windows xargs seems to have a bug, here's a regression test for
     # our workaround
 
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import sys
+
+import pytest
+
 from pre_commit.languages import helpers
+from pre_commit.prefix import Prefix
+from pre_commit.util import CalledProcessError
 
 
 def test_basic_get_default_version():
@@ -10,3 +16,15 @@ def test_basic_get_default_version():
 
 def test_basic_healthy():
     assert helpers.basic_healthy(None, None) is True
+
+
+def test_failed_setup_command_does_not_unicode_error():
+    script = (
+        'import sys\n'
+        "getattr(sys.stderr, 'buffer', sys.stderr).write(b'\\x81\\xfe')\n"
+        'exit(1)\n'
+    )
+
+    # an assertion that this does not raise `UnicodeError`
+    with pytest.raises(CalledProcessError):
+        helpers.run_setup_cmd(Prefix('.'), (sys.executable, '-c', script))