diff --git a/tests/checks/printf.fish b/tests/checks/printf.fish
index 16677f5ce..c2696c7b1 100644
--- a/tests/checks/printf.fish
+++ b/tests/checks/printf.fish
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ for locale in {$acceptable_locales}.{UTF-8,UTF8}
     end
 end
 
-if set -q numeric_locale[1]
+# OpenBSD's wcstod does not honor LC_NUMERIC, meaning this feature is broken there.
+if set -q numeric_locale[1]; and test (uname) != "OpenBSD"
     set -x LC_NUMERIC $numeric_locale
     printf '%e\n' "3,45"  # should succeed, output should be 3,450000e+00
     printf '%e\n' "4.56"  # should succeed, output should be 4,560000e+00