Complete Crash on Windows NT using Python 1.6 with IDLE

[Klaus-Gerd Meyer]

>just starting up the TclTk Front End for Python 1.6,
>I can type the following and get always a complete crash of the
>python IDLE. I don't get the crash when I use python in console
>modus.
>
>Just Type - after the prompt, but without the double quotes - "aü"


I just tried it, no problem (Win NT 4, german version):

Python 1.6 (#0, Sep  5 2000, 08:16:13) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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IDLE 0.6 -- press F1 for help
>>> aü
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>