[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-2999657 ] help() failure

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Bugs item #2999657, was opened at 2010-05-11 08:58
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Category: pythonwin
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: help() failure

Initial Comment:
This pretty much says it all:

help("os.urandom")Firing event 'ProcessEnter' failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\scintilla\bindings.py", line 142, in fire
    rc = binding.handler(*args)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\interact.py", line 453, in ProcessEnterEvent
    if self.HandleSpecialLine(): return 0
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\winout.py", line 152, in HandleSpecialLine
    line = self.GetLine(lineNo-1)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\scintilla\control.py", line 373, in GetLine
    return self.GetTextRange(start, end)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\scintilla\control.py", line 362, in GetTextRange
    ret = ret.decode(default_scintilla_encoding)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: invalid data

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Running Python 2.6.5 from python.org locally.

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2010-08-30 14:14

Message:
WFM too - I wonder if a default encoding has been specified in site.py?

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Comment By: Roger Upole (rupole)
Date: 2010-06-06 08:20

Message:
I can't reproduce this.  Can you provide some more specifics on how to make
it happen ?

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