interpreter crashes before start

[mhh91]

BPO	7600
Nosy	@bitdancer
Superseder	bpo-1616979: cp720 encoding map

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2009-12-30.15:03:38.849>
created_at = <Date 2009-12-30.14:39:34.716>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-crash']
title = 'interpreter crashes before start'
updated_at = <Date 2009-12-30.15:03:38.832>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/mhh91'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2009-12-30.15:03:38.832>
actor = 'r.david.murray'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2009-12-30.15:03:38.849>
closer = 'r.david.murray'
components = ['Interpreter Core']
creation = <Date 2009-12-30.14:39:34.716>
creator = 'mhh91'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 7600
keywords = []
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['97033', '97034']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['r.david.murray', 'mhh91']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '1616979'
type = 'crash'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue7600'
versions = ['Python 3.1']

[mhh91]

when I set my Locale to "Arabic(Egypt)" on Windows 7,Python does not
start,giving this Error :

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp720

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

[bitdancer]

This is a duplicate of bpo-1616979, which has been fixed.