Issue 4530: IDLE crashes with Japanese text on print command (original) (raw)

Just got Python 3.0 final on Windows and was testing out IDLE, and it's having some issues.

Specifically:

• Options -> Configure IDLE..., General Tab: Change Default Source Encoding from None to UTF-8
• Create a new python file and enter a print command containing Japanese text. Save it. (Saves to UTF-8.)
• Press F5 to run the script. IDLE crashes.

However, if the default encoding is left as "None", and you create a new file and allow IDLE to save it as cp932, then it runs with no problem through IDLE.

Straight Python on a command line is not affected and reads the UTF-8 files perfectly fine.

Attached is a script which crashes IDLE every single time I run it.

Thanks.

• Paul Goins