diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index aede281..c400888 100755
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ class TestPypandoc(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_unicode_input(self):
         # make sure that pandoc always returns unicode and does not mishandle it
-        expected = u'üäöîôû{0}======{0}{0}'.format(os.linesep)
+        expected = u'# üäöîôû'.format(os.linesep)
         written = pypandoc.convert_text(u'<h1>üäöîôû</h1>', 'md', format='html')
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(written, unicode_type))
         self.assertEqualExceptForNewlineEnd(expected, written)
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class TestPypandoc(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(written, unicode_type))
 
         # Only use german umlauts in th next test, as iso-8859-15 covers that
-        expected = u'üäö€{0}===={0}{0}'.format(os.linesep)
+        expected = u'# üäö€'.format(os.linesep)
         bytes = u'<h1>üäö€</h1>'.encode("iso-8859-15")
 
         # Without encoding, this fails as we expect utf-8 per default