[issue19625] IDLE should use UTF-8 as it's default encoding

2013-11-16 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This is a duplicate of issue15809. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> IDLE console uses incorrect encoding. type: -> behavior _

[issue19625] IDLE should use UTF-8 as it's default encoding

2013-11-16 Thread irdb
New submission from irdb: >>> s = 'ی' Unsupported characters in input I'm using windows 8 and Python 2.7.6. The same line works perfectly if I save it in a module with encoding set to UTF-8; but it's really annoying that I can't test my code directly in IDLE. -- components: IDLE messa