diff --git a/python-pyzmq.changes b/python-pyzmq.changes
index f81d2fe..4c53d91 100644
--- a/python-pyzmq.changes
+++ b/python-pyzmq.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 24 15:46:33 UTC 2020 - Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
+
+- raise test timeout limit to 5m and define an console encoding
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep  7 11:31:06 UTC 2020 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-pyzmq.spec b/python-pyzmq.spec
index 33c8724..334496f 100644
--- a/python-pyzmq.spec
+++ b/python-pyzmq.spec
@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 
 %if %{with tests}
 %check
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 %python_exec setup.py build_ext --inplace
-timeout 3m bash -c '
+timeout 5m bash -c '
 %pytest
 '
 %endif