[New-bugs-announce] [issue1262] IDLE does not start if windows environment variable containing 'German Umlaute: äöü' exists

[Reto Wehrli]

New submission from Reto Wehrli:

C:\devtools\Python30\Lib\idlelib>set
...
eRoomOfflineFiles=Z:\Documents and Settings\tgdwere3\My Documents\eRoom
Dateien
für die Offline-Bearbeitung\
...

C:\devtools\Python30\Lib\idlelib>..\..\python.exe idle.pyw
object  : UnicodeDecodeError('utf8', b'Z:\\Documents and
Settings\\tgdwere3\\My
Documents\\eRoom Dateien f\xfcr die Offline-Bearbeitung\\', 63, 69, 'u
nsupported Unicode code range')
type    : UnicodeDecodeError
refcount: 4
address : 00B825B0
lost sys.stderr

after removing the env variable idle starts

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components: IDLE
messages: 56342
nosy: reto
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE does not start if windows environment variable containing 'German Umlaute: äöü' exists
type: crash
versions: Python 3.0

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