[Idle-dev] Re: [Tutor] Help concerning raw_input urgently needed!

[Guido van Rossum]

> I think the problem is that Tcl/Tk use Unicode these days,
> and Python defaults to ISO8859-1.

That's not true.

> Thus your umlaut is ok for raw_input in python proper. In IDLE, the
> characters are recieved by Tk, and translated from Unicode. That
> fails on any non-ASCII value, since these are ambiguous unless a
> code page is supplied.

Try the IDLE from current CVS.  AFAIK the Unicode issues have been
fixed there.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)