[issue40435] IDLE should catch user config file UnicodeDecodeError

左迟 added the comment: Well, I have uploaded my ~/.idlerc/config-main.cfg. And apeeding "encodin=utf-8" is my first time to edit config-main.cfg file manually. The content of config-main.cfg is below: 1 [EditorWindow] 2 font-size = 16 3 font-bold = False 4 encoding = utf-8 5 font =

[issue40435] IDLE should catch user config file UnicodeDecodeError

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I want this left open to fix IDLE exiting instead of continuing. The original IDLE authors could not anticipate all the things that users around the world (and OS developers) might do, and we maintainers are still plugging holes as they are reported.

[issue40435] IDLE should catch user config file UnicodeDecodeError

左迟 added the comment: Hi! Thanks for your useful comment. And I'm sorry for uploading the image but not pasting it in the comment. When I append "encoding=utf-8" to ~/.idlerc/config-main.cfg, the idle turns to be good and works well. Yes, the "[] Beta: Use Unicode UTF8 for worldwide language

[issue40435] IDLE should catch user config file UnicodeDecodeError

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- title: Failed to launch IDLE in a UTF-8 code page terminal environment -> IDLE should catch user config file UnicodeDecodeError ___ Python tracker