Reading history file fails with non-latin chars on Windows #55
Description
On Windows and Python 3-6, reading history file that contains non-Latin chars fails with this error:
$ python
Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 18:41:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Failed calling sys.__interactivehook__
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Apps\WinPython-64bit-3.6.1.0Qt5\python-3.6.1.amd64\lib\site.py", line 418, in register_readline
readline.read_history_file(history)
File "D:\Apps\WinPython-64bit-3.6.1.0Qt5\python-3.6.1.amd64\lib\site-packages\pyreadline\rlmain.py", line 165, in read_history_file
self.mode._history.read_history_file(filename)
File "D:\Apps\WinPython-64bit-3.6.1.0Qt5\python-3.6.1.amd64\lib\site-packages\pyreadline\lineeditor\history.py", line 82, in read_history_file
for line in open(filename, 'rt'):
File "D:\Apps\WinPython-64bit-3.6.1.0Qt5\python-3.6.1.amd64\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 1818: character maps to <undefined>