Idle crashes when using accentuated letters in Mac OS X

[Ned Deily]

In article <ls8msv$coo$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 10.08.14 15:03, schrieb Anamaria Martins Moreira
> > I am facing a problem with using accentuated characters in idle (2.7.6
> > or 2.7.8). When I type the accent, idle crashes. If I call python from a
> > terminal, there is no such problem.
> 
> Try updating your Tcl/Tk to the latest version, e.g. via ActiveTcl. I 
> remember such a bug in the OSX version, which was fixed a long time ago. 
> There is a number of bugs in the OSX Tk, a lot of them was recently 
> fixed, so stay tuned and maybe update when 8.6.2 becomes available.

You also need to be using a Python instance that will use the newer 
ActiveTcl.  The crash is due to a bug in older versions of OS X Cocoa 
Tk; unfortunately, the versions of Tk 8.5 shipped by Apple with OS X 
from OS X 10.6 through at least current 10.9.x still have this bug.  One 
way to avoid it is to use either one of the current python.org 
installers (Python 2.7.8 or 3.4.1) and the current ActiveTcl 8.5.15.0 
from ActiveState (using 8.6.x will not help).  There is more information 
here:

https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org