Access violation in Python shell

[David Hughes]

> [ test code snipped ]
 
> > The 8 bit character \xe2 was originally an a-circumflex. It rendered
> > like a greek Tau in the Python output but ends up as a 'G' in the 
> > above copy.

> I don't know if this is a problem or a symptom of the crash.
 
It is probably because Idle, where I wrote the code, and Python stdout use 
different code pages for 8-bit bytes and, for reasons I don't want to know 
about, typing <alt>226 (=> \xe2) into my email editor produces 'G'.

> 
> Bug report for the crash is here:
> 
> 	http://python.org/sf/626172

Thanks for submitting that.

David