diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/phpt/windows_input_encoding.phpt b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/phpt/windows_input_encoding.phpt
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+--TEST--
+QuestionHelper should parse special chars on windows input.
+--STDIN--
+à é
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\QuestionHelper;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Question\Question;
+
+$vendor = __DIR__;
+while (!file_exists($vendor.'/vendor')) {
+    $vendor = dirname($vendor);
+}
+require $vendor.'/vendor/autoload.php';
+
+$output = new ConsoleOutput();
+$output->write((new QuestionHelper())->ask(new ArgvInput(), $output, new Question("Special chars\n")));
+exit(0);
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+Special chars
+à é