diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 805507a35..cd9678b3f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ Kevin Cox
 Kodi B. Arfer
 Lee Kamentsky
 Lev Maximov
+Llandy Riveron Del Risco
 Loic Esteve
 Lukas Bednar
 Luke Murphy
@@ -168,3 +169,4 @@ Vitaly Lashmanov
 Vlad Dragos
 Wouter van Ackooy
 Xuecong Liao
+Zoltán Máté
diff --git a/_pytest/compat.py b/_pytest/compat.py
index 9cebbb974..45f9f86d4 100644
--- a/_pytest/compat.py
+++ b/_pytest/compat.py
@@ -282,7 +282,15 @@ def _setup_collect_fakemodule():
 
 
 if _PY2:
-    from py.io import TextIO as CaptureIO
+    # Without this the test_dupfile_on_textio will fail, otherwise CaptureIO could directly inherit from StringIO.
+    from py.io import TextIO
+
+    class CaptureIO(TextIO):
+
+        @property
+        def encoding(self):
+            return getattr(self, '_encoding', 'UTF-8')
+
 else:
     import io
 
diff --git a/changelog/2375.trivial b/changelog/2375.trivial
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a73ab6ccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/2375.trivial
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Provides encoding attribute on CaptureIO.
diff --git a/testing/test_capture.py b/testing/test_capture.py
index a5d8c9c13..7380ad654 100644
--- a/testing/test_capture.py
+++ b/testing/test_capture.py
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ class TestLoggingInteraction(object):
         """)
         result = testdir.runpytest_subprocess(
             p, "--traceconfig",
-            "-p", "no:capturelog")
+            "-p", "no:capturelog", "-p", "no:hypothesis", "-p", "no:hypothesispytest")
         assert result.ret != 0
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
             "*hello432*",
@@ -1040,6 +1040,15 @@ def test_capture_not_started_but_reset():
     capsys.stop_capturing()
 
 
+def test_using_capsys_fixture_works_with_sys_stdout_encoding(capsys):
+    test_text = 'test text'
+
+    print(test_text.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, 'replace'))
+    (out, err) = capsys.readouterr()
+    assert out
+    assert err == ''
+
+
 @needsosdup
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('use', [True, False])
 def test_fdcapture_tmpfile_remains_the_same(tmpfile, use):