Python 3.0 crashes displaying Unicode at interactive prompt

[John Machin]

On Dec 14, 9:20 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> >> This is intended behavior.
>
> > I see. That means that the behaviour in Python 1.6 to 2.6 (i.e.
> > encoding the text using the repr() function (as then defined) was not
> > intended behaviour?
>
> Sure.

"Sure" as in "sure, it was not intended behaviour"?

> This behavior has not changed. It still uses repr().
>
> Of course, the string type has changed in 3.0, and now uses a different
> definition of repr.

So was the above-reported non-crash consequence of the change of
definition of repr intended?