There is no need to avoid running the test.

Just set proper locale. Default is C.us-ascii, which breaks python's
str.encode().

disable-encoding-check.patch

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur -Naru prettytable-0.7.2.orig/prettytable_test.py prettytable-0.7.2/prettytable_test.py
---- prettytable-0.7.2.orig/prettytable_test.py	2013-04-06 23:43:12.000000000 +0000
-+++ prettytable-0.7.2/prettytable_test.py	2014-01-07 18:49:26.017977139 +0000
-@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@
- 
-     def testPrint(self):
-         print()
--        print(self.x)
-+        #print(self.x)
- 
- if __name__ == "__main__":
-     unittest.main()

python-prettytable.spec

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ License:	BSD
 Source0:    http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PrettyTable/%{modname}-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL:		http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PrettyTable
 
-Patch0:         disable-encoding-check.patch
-
 BuildArch:	noarch
 BuildRequires:	python2-devel
 BuildRequires:  python2-setuptools
@@ -63,8 +61,6 @@ a row range.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{modname}-%{version}
 
-%patch0 -p1
-
 %if 0%{?with_python3}
 rm -rf %{py3dir}
 cp -a . %{py3dir}
@@ -81,6 +77,7 @@ popd
 %endif
 
 %check
+export LANG=en_GB.utf8
 %{__python} %{modname}_test.py
 
 %if 0%{?with_python3}