IDLE 3.5.1 quits unexpectedly (portuguese keyboard)

[eryk sun]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Osvaldo Dias dos Santos
<vadodsantos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pressing the tilde key my iMac portuguese keyboard quits IDLE
> unexpectedly (along with any associated files I may be working
> on, including code).
>
> The keyboard image is attached. The tilde key is the second
> orange one from the top.

There's no file attached. Attachments are unreliable on a list. This
should suffice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_keyboard_layout

> This key is very important in this language, because pressing
> it together with the shift key, the caret ( ^ ) symbol is
> entered. So, if I try to enter a caret and press the shift and
> the tilde key to do it, IDLE quits and any unsaved file
> information (even code) is lost. Then Apple crash report window
> opens, but if I click the reopen button nothing happens, IDLE
> does not reopen.

I know on Linux, Tk 8.6 has a problem with dead keys when using an
international keyboard layout (see issue 25356 [1]). This crash could
be related to whatever causes the problem on Linux. Try running a
simple test.tcl script via wish:

text .t
pack .t

Does wish crash when you press tilde in the window?

[1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue25356