diff --git a/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh b/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
index 1be2178516..12655958e7 100755
--- a/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
+++ b/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
@@ -671,4 +671,27 @@ do
 	done
 done
 
+# Test Unicode UTF-8 characters in the pathname of the working
+# directory root.  Use of "*A()" routines rather than "*W()" routines
+# on Windows can sometimes lead to odd failures.
+#
+u1=$(printf "u_c3_a6__\xC3\xA6")
+u2=$(printf "u_e2_99_ab__\xE2\x99\xAB")
+u_values="$u1 $u2"
+for u in $u_values
+do
+	test_expect_success "unicode in repo root path: $u" '
+		test_when_finished "stop_daemon_delete_repo $u" &&
+
+		git init "$u" &&
+		echo 1 >"$u"/file1 &&
+		git -C "$u" add file1 &&
+		git -C "$u" config core.fsmonitor true &&
+
+		start_daemon -C "$u" &&
+		git -C "$u" status >actual &&
+		grep "new file:   file1" actual
+	'
+done
+
 test_done