[New-bugs-announce] [issue4323] Wrong encoding in files saved from IDLE (3.0rc2 on Windows)

[André]

New submission from André <info at orlans-amo.be>:

When saving a source file with non-ascii characters from an IDLE window,
on Windows platform (XP and Server 2003 at least)
with locale English US  

  locale.getdefaultlocale()
  ('en_US', 'cp1252')

IDLE prompts in IOBinding.py with the message 
"non Ascii found, yet no encoding declared, Add a line like # -*- 
coding: cp1252 -*-"

If accepted, the file is saved with the wrong encoding.
Afterwards, it is read back by IDLE without any problem and it looks 
good in the IDLE window.

However, if a string with non-ascii characters is sent to another 
module (i.e. email  MIMEText)
the string is wrong.

The same source would be rejected by python in terminal mode and by 
IDLE on Linux.

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messages: 75855
nosy: andre
severity: normal
status: open
title: Wrong encoding in files saved from IDLE (3.0rc2 on Windows)
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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