diff --git a/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/BLACKLIST b/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/BLACKLIST
index 6cfd71635f54bd0f41640f93fb52ba4992ff3619..2cde594548304c054ce8bb154b6c61190bb65425 100644
--- a/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/BLACKLIST
+++ b/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/BLACKLIST
@@ -3,6 +3,3 @@ windows
 
 [inputEventForwardingDisabledWhenActiveFocusOnPressDisabled]
 *
-
-[changeLocale]
-windows
diff --git a/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/tst_qquickwebengineview.cpp b/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/tst_qquickwebengineview.cpp
index a6818c6ef2202a72112b96ad5edf41a7dc663b2e..2f9063ea5b5aa50dff02e601192a68582593da18 100644
--- a/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/tst_qquickwebengineview.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/quick/qquickwebengineview/tst_qquickwebengineview.cpp
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ void tst_QQuickWebEngineView::changeLocale()
 
     QTRY_VERIFY(!bodyInnerText(viewDE.data()).isEmpty());
     errorLines = bodyInnerText(viewDE.data()).split(QRegExp("[\r\n]"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
-    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first(), QStringLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
+    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first().toUtf8(), QByteArrayLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
 
     QLocale::setDefault(QLocale("en"));
     QScopedPointer<QQuickWebEngineView> viewEN(newWebEngineView());
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ void tst_QQuickWebEngineView::changeLocale()
 
     QTRY_VERIFY(!bodyInnerText(viewEN.data()).isEmpty());
     errorLines = bodyInnerText(viewEN.data()).split(QRegExp("[\r\n]"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
-    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first(), QStringLiteral("This site can\u2019t be reached"));
+    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first().toUtf8(), QByteArrayLiteral("This site can\xE2\x80\x99t be reached"));
 
     // Reset error page
     viewDE->setUrl(QUrl("about:blank"));
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ void tst_QQuickWebEngineView::changeLocale()
 
     QTRY_VERIFY(!bodyInnerText(viewDE.data()).isEmpty());
     errorLines = bodyInnerText(viewDE.data()).split(QRegExp("[\r\n]"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
-    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first(), QStringLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
+    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first().toUtf8(), QByteArrayLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
 }
 
 void tst_QQuickWebEngineView::userScripts()
diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/BLACKLIST b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/BLACKLIST
index d249ac141c00ef982d44217e751179a13deebdec..0a909d0f6c5068fc79c200e045d870e9f2d650c5 100644
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/BLACKLIST
+++ b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/BLACKLIST
@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
 [doNotSendMouseKeyboardEventsWhenDisabled]
 windows
-[changeLocale]
-windows
-linux
diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/tst_qwebengineview.cpp b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/tst_qwebengineview.cpp
index e511714373f68afe241d184ac58f356c7f7d5d79..42dd23a9c8c0ec05219390cdc7fbf4259e80942a 100644
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/tst_qwebengineview.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebengineview/tst_qwebengineview.cpp
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ void tst_QWebEngineView::changeLocale()
 
     QTRY_VERIFY(!toPlainTextSync(viewDE.page()).isEmpty());
     errorLines = toPlainTextSync(viewDE.page()).split(QRegExp("[\r\n]"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
-    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first(), QStringLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
+    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first().toUtf8(), QByteArrayLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
 
     QLocale::setDefault(QLocale("en"));
     QWebEngineView viewEN;
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ void tst_QWebEngineView::changeLocale()
 
     QTRY_VERIFY(!toPlainTextSync(viewEN.page()).isEmpty());
     errorLines = toPlainTextSync(viewEN.page()).split(QRegExp("[\r\n]"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
-    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first(), QStringLiteral("This site can\u2019t be reached"));
+    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first().toUtf8(), QByteArrayLiteral("This site can\xE2\x80\x99t be reached"));
 
     // Reset error page
     viewDE.load(QUrl("about:blank"));
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ void tst_QWebEngineView::changeLocale()
 
     QTRY_VERIFY(!toPlainTextSync(viewDE.page()).isEmpty());
     errorLines = toPlainTextSync(viewDE.page()).split(QRegExp("[\r\n]"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
-    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first(), QStringLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
+    QCOMPARE(errorLines.first().toUtf8(), QByteArrayLiteral("Diese Website ist nicht erreichbar"));
 }
 
 void tst_QWebEngineView::inputMethodsTextFormat_data()