Christian Heimes added the comment: I've added a fprintf(stderr, "%s", path) to makepathobject(). I suspect that PC/getpathp.c doesn't handle non ASCII chars correctly. It's using char instead of w_char all over the place. Could that be related to the issue, Neal?
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. c:\testäöü\PCBuild8\win32release>set PYTHONPATH=c:\testäöü\Lib c:\testäöü\PCBuild8\win32release>python c:\testõ÷³\Lib;c:\testõ÷³\PCBuild8\win32release\python30.zip;c:\testõ÷³\DLLs;c:\ testõ÷³\lib;c:\testõ÷³\lib\plat-win;c:\testõ÷³\lib\lib-tk;c:\testõ÷³\PCBuild8\wi n32releaseFatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard strea ms object : ImportError('No module named encodings.utf_8',) type : ImportError refcount: 4 address : 00A43540 lost sys.stderr This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. ---------- nosy: +nnorwitz __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1342> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com