IDLE does not start if windows environment variable containing 'German Umlaute: äöü' exists

[reto]

BPO	1262
Nosy	@kbkaiser, @tiran

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closed_at = <Date 2007-10-28.19:20:02.453>
created_at = <Date 2007-10-11.11:30:37.868>
labels = ['expert-IDLE', 'type-crash']
title = "IDLE does not start if windows environment variable containing 'German Umlaute: \xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc' exists"
updated_at = <Date 2007-10-28.19:20:02.451>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/reto'

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activity = <Date 2007-10-28.19:20:02.451>
actor = 'kbk'
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closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2007-10-28.19:20:02.453>
closer = 'kbk'
components = ['IDLE']
creation = <Date 2007-10-11.11:30:37.868>
creator = 'reto'
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hgrepos = []
issue_num = 1262
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'crash'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1262'
versions = ['Python 3.0']

[reto]

C:\devtools\Python30\Lib\idlelib>set
...
eRoomOfflineFiles=Z:\Documents and Settings\tgdwere3\My Documents\eRoom
Dateien
für die Offline-Bearbeitung\
...

C:\devtools\Python30\Lib\idlelib>..\..\python.exe idle.pyw
object : UnicodeDecodeError('utf8', b'Z:\\Documents and
Settings\\tgdwere3\\My
Documents\\eRoom Dateien f\xfcr die Offline-Bearbeitung\\', 63, 69, 'u
nsupported Unicode code range')
type : UnicodeDecodeError
refcount: 4
address : 00B825B0
lost sys.stderr

after removing the env variable idle starts

[tiran]

Confirmed!

Python 3.0 doesn't start at all on Windows when an environment variable
with non ASCII chars is present. This bug is related to
http://bugs.python.org/issue1342.

However on Linux Python 3.0 can handle unicode characters in paths and
environ vars fine.

$ UNITEST="umlauts äöü ß " ./python -c "import os;
print(os.environ['UNITEST'])"
umlauts äöü ß

[kbkaiser]

I believe this is a duplicate of
http://bugs.python.org/issue1342
and not related to IDLE.