diff --git a/S32-encoding/registry.t b/S32-encoding/registry.t
index d3ce366a30..13b4b55852 100644
--- a/S32-encoding/registry.t
+++ b/S32-encoding/registry.t
@@ -2,18 +2,22 @@ use Test;
 use lib $?FILE.IO.parent(2).add: 'packages/Test-Helpers';
 use Test::Util;
 
-plan 40;
+#!rakudo.moar emit plan 40;
+#?rakudo.moar emit plan 37;
 
 for <utf8  utf-8  UTF-8 ascii  iso-8859-1  latin-1 utf16 utf-16 UTF-16 UTF16
      utf16le utf-16le utf16-le utf-16-le utf16be UTF16BE UTF-16be utf16-be
      utf-16-be utf16-le UTF16-BE UTF16-LE windows932 windows-932 windows-1251
      windows1251 windows-1252 windows1252 utf32 utf-32 UTF32> -> $name {
-    group-of 3 => "Can find built-in $name encoding" => {
-        given Encoding::Registry.find: $name {
+    #?rakudo.moar emit next if $name eq 'utf32' | 'utf-32' | 'UTF32';
+    # utf-32 encoding/decoding is NYI on rakudo.moarvm.  See MoarVM#1348 & rakudo#3293
+    group-of 4 => "Can find built-in $name encoding" => {
+        given try Encoding::Registry.find: $name {
             isa-ok  $_, Encoding::Builtin, 'type of result';
             does-ok $_, Encoding, 'does Encoding role';
             is (.alternative-names, .name).flat».fc.any, $name.fc,
                 'found right encoding';
+            lives-ok { .encoder.encode-chars('foo') }, 'can use encoding';
         }
     }
 }