Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I re-encoded CREDITS to utf-8 and specified 'ascii' for the other so *I* will
see an error if a non-ascii chars gets in the file again. Serhiy, I am
confident that this will work on all OSes, but feel free to test AboutIDLE
again sometime.
(Note to myself) T
Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 21356a5b8a5e by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
Issue #25905: Specify 'ascii' encoding for README.txt and NEWS.txt.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/21356a5b8a5e
New changeset 59852a79b508 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.5':
Issue #25905: Specify
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
For CREDITS.txt, the only issue is 'Löwis' (ö has latin-1 code 246), which was
changed from Loewis in 2003. If not changed back to the ascii form, what
matters is that the encoding used for decoding from bytes to unicode matches
the actual encoding. AFAIK, i
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Strange and accidental. This is the one line I kept from the old version,
before deleting the old and adding the new. I believe I edited either with
IDLE or Notepad++, and I would be surprised if the latter, an editor for
programmers, would turn ' into ’. I
Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 11c789c034fe by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
Issue #25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/11c789c034fe
New changeset 42963dd81600 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4':
Issue #259
New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:
When open the About IDLE dialog and press the README button on bottom line, I
get the UnicodeDecodeError:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1548, in __call__
r
