diff --git a/tests/test/twide3.pp b/tests/test/twide3.pp
index f839d46c28..61def63c14 100644
--- a/tests/test/twide3.pp
+++ b/tests/test/twide3.pp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-{ %skiptarget=win32,win64,wince }
+{ %skiptarget=win32,win64,wince,os2,emx }
 { This test is only useful if the local codepage is utf-8 which
-  usually not the case on windows
+  usually not the case on windows (and never can be the case on OS/2)
 }
 {$codepage utf-8}