diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index a506b98be4aeb2..b945cf094e99c1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ def test_ascii_and_unicode_flag(self):
 
     def test_locale_flag(self):
         import locale
-        enc = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+        _, enc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
         # Search non-ASCII letter
         for i in range(128, 256):
             try:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7a03a2d65e35bc..bf3876948f0a26 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ Library
 
 - bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a
   filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
+- Issue #24932: Use proper command line parsing in _testembed
 
 - Issue #28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap,
   improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi,