diff --git a/examples/flaskr/flaskr.py b/examples/flaskr/flaskr.py
index 1df24293..69953555 100644
--- a/examples/flaskr/flaskr.py
+++ b/examples/flaskr/flaskr.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 from __future__ import with_statement
-import sqlite3
+from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite3
 from contextlib import closing
 from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, abort, \
      render_template, flash
diff --git a/examples/minitwit/minitwit.py b/examples/minitwit/minitwit.py
index b740bc25..7726e9f4 100644
--- a/examples/minitwit/minitwit.py
+++ b/examples/minitwit/minitwit.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 """
 from __future__ import with_statement
 import time
-import sqlite3
+from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite3
 from hashlib import md5
 from datetime import datetime
 from contextlib import closing
diff --git a/tests/flask_tests.py b/tests/flask_tests.py
index c1cb95c2..9e68a7a3 100644
--- a/tests/flask_tests.py
+++ b/tests/flask_tests.py
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ sys.path.append(os.path.join(example_path, 'flaskr'))
 sys.path.append(os.path.join(example_path, 'minitwit'))
 
 
+def has_encoding(name):
+    try:
+        import codecs
+        codecs.lookup(name)
+        return True
+    except LookupError:
+        return False
+
+
 # config keys used for the ConfigTestCase
 TEST_KEY = 'foo'
 SECRET_KEY = 'devkey'
@@ -698,6 +707,9 @@ class JSONTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         assert rv.status_code == 200
         assert rv.data == u'정상처리'.encode('utf-8')
 
+    if not has_encoding('euc-kr'):
+        test_modified_url_encoding = None
+
 
 class TemplatingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):