[issue15809] 2.7 IDLE console uses incorrect encoding.

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

I wonder if we should consider extracting the body of
        if isinstance(source, types.UnicodeType):
as a function, call it ufix_latin1; add one or more alterntives, ufix_utf8, ufix_locale, ufix_irdb(?); keep ufix_latin1 as default; but switch to an alternative according to an Idle command line switch (or environmental variable?)?

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