diff --git a/python/ql/test/query-tests/Expressions/Regex/test.py b/python/ql/test/query-tests/Expressions/Regex/test.py
index f0967dc6eef..f49e7f21833 100644
--- a/python/ql/test/query-tests/Expressions/Regex/test.py
+++ b/python/ql/test/query-tests/Expressions/Regex/test.py
@@ -139,3 +139,6 @@ re.compile(r'(?:(?P<n1>^(?:|x)))')
 
 #Potentially mis-parsed character set
 re.compile(r"\[(?P<txt>[^[]*)\]\((?P<uri>[^)]*)")
+
+#Allow unicode in raw strings
+re.compile(r"[\U00010000-\U0010FFFF]")
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