[New-bugs-announce] [issue27365] Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt (for contributor names)

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy:

A month ago, for 3.5 and 3.6, I added a test file by Westley Martínez (note accent on i) and then his name into Misc/NEWS and idlelib/NEWS.txt.  As a result, the latter will not display when the button on About IDLE is clicked.  Instead, a UnicodeDecodeError is sent to stderr.  I will add a test for the About box.

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assignee: terry.reedy
messages: 269042
nosy: terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt (for contributor names)
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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