diff --git a/Lib/test/test_readline.py b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
index b4c25dee9d3..67ee9b7f7cf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_readline.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 """
 from contextlib import ExitStack
 from errno import EIO
+import locale
 import os
 import selectors
 import subprocess
@@ -153,6 +154,13 @@ def test_auto_history_disabled(self):
         self.assertIn(b"History length: 0\r\n", output)
 
     def test_nonascii(self):
+        loc = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, None)
+        if loc in ('C', 'POSIX'):
+            # bpo-29240: On FreeBSD, if the LC_CTYPE locale is C or POSIX,
+            # writing and reading non-ASCII bytes into/from a TTY works, but
+            # readline or ncurses ignores non-ASCII bytes on read.
+            self.skipTest(f"the LC_CTYPE locale is {loc!r}")
+
         try:
             readline.add_history("\xEB\xEF")
         except UnicodeEncodeError as err: