diff --git a/tests/native_tests/contrib/hy_repr.hy b/tests/native_tests/contrib/hy_repr.hy
index 5085cc3..8787435 100644
--- a/tests/native_tests/contrib/hy_repr.hy
+++ b/tests/native_tests/contrib/hy_repr.hy
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ;; license. See the LICENSE.
 
 (import
+  [hy._compat [PY3]]
   [math [isnan]]
   [hy.contrib.hy-repr [hy-repr hy-repr-register]])
 
@@ -78,6 +79,14 @@
   (assert (is (type (get orig 1)) float))
   (assert (is (type (get result 1)) HyFloat)))
 
+(when PY3 (defn test-bytes-keywords []
+  ; Make sure that keyword-like bytes objects aren't hy-repred as if
+  ; they were real keywords.
+  (setv kw :mykeyword)
+  (assert (= (hy-repr kw) ":mykeyword"))
+  (assert (= (hy-repr (str ':mykeyword)) ":mykeyword"))
+  (assert (= (hy-repr (.encode kw "UTF-8") #[[b"\xef\xb7\x90:hello"]])))))
+
 (defn test-hy-model-constructors []
   (import hy)
   (assert (= (hy-repr (hy.HyInteger 7)) "'7"))