[New-bugs-announce] [issue8203] IDLE about dialog credits raises UnicodeDecodeError

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:

Install 3.1.2 -> Open IDLE -> Open "About IDLE" dialog -> click on "Credits"

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1399, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/idlelib/aboutDialog.py", line 123, in ShowIDLECredits
    self.display_file_text('About - Credits', 'CREDITS.txt', 'iso-8859-1')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/idlelib/aboutDialog.py", line 138, in display_file_text
    textView.view_file(self, title, fn, encoding)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/idlelib/textView.py", line 76, in view_file
    return view_text(parent, title, textFile.read())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1540-1543: invalid data

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components: IDLE
messages: 101532
nosy: srid
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE about dialog credits raises UnicodeDecodeError
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1

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