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

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

Larry, there is a slight reversion in 3.5.2rc that I think should be fixed: idlelib/NEWS.txt will not display from About IDLE dialog because it had a couple of non-ascii chars.  idle_news-35.diff has the full patch.  A minimal fix for 3.5.2 final would consist of changing 'ascii' to 'utf-8' in idlelib/aboutDialog.py and the recoding the 2 characters in NEWS.  Testing changes in the other 2 files could wait. 

Since I don't know how you want to do this now, I have not pushed anything yet.

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nosy: +benjamin.peterson, larry
priority: normal -> release blocker
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43505/idle-news-35.diff

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