[New-bugs-announce] [issue4700] UnicodeEncodeError in license()

[Michael Newman]

New submission from Michael Newman <michael.b.newman at gmail.com>:

UnicodeEncodeError occurs for Microsoft portion of "license()".
Confirmed on 3 separate Windows XP computers:

Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec  3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> license()
A. HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE
==========================

Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting
Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl) in the Netherlands
as a successor of a language called ABC.  Guido remains Python's

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distribution specified by Microsoft. In particular, you must require
distributors and external end users to agree to terms that protect the
Microsoft Distributable Code at least as much as Microsoft's own
requirements for the Distributable Code. See Microsoft's documentation
(included in its developer tools and on its website at microsoft.com)
for specific details.

Redistribution of the Windows binary build of the Python interpreter
complies with this agreement, provided that you do not:

- alter any copyright, trademark or patent notice in Microsoft's
Hit Return for more, or q (and Return) to quit:
Distributable Code;

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python30\lib\site.py", line 385, in __call__
    print(self.__lines[i])
  File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write
    b = encoder.encode(s)
  File "C:\Python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2019' in
position
15: character maps to <undefined>

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components: Windows
messages: 78057
nosy: mnewman
severity: normal
status: open
title: UnicodeEncodeError in license()
type: crash
versions: Python 3.0

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