> FWIW, in Linux, this problem does not exist. Everything is UTF-8 and Python 2 would work just fine (and always did). That's not true at all. I remember all k

> FWIW, in Linux, this problem does not exist. Everything is UTF-8 and Python 2 would work just fine (and always did). That's not true at all. I remember all kinds of encoding errors when dealing with the FS, the network or any user input when using Linux. Unless you're talking specifically about IDLE?