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

Kurt B. Kaiser added the comment: I believe this is a duplicate of http://bugs.python.org/issue1342 and not related to IDLE. -- nosy: +kbk resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

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

Christian Heimes added the comment: Confirmed! Python 3.0 doesn't start at all on Windows when an environment variable with non ASCII chars is present. This bug is related to http://bugs.python.org/issue1342. However on Linux Python 3.0 can handle unicode characters in paths and environ vars fi

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

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:\\Documen