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Interesting, this doesn't work with non-UTF-8 locale.
$ touch astralE.py
$ LC_ALL=en_US.iso88591 ./python -m idlelib.idle -e astralE.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
 "__main__", mod_spec)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
 exec(code, run_globals)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/idle.py", line 11, in <module>
 idlelib.PyShell.main()
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1553, in main
 if flist.open(filename) is None:
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/FileList.py", line 36, in open
 edit = self.EditorWindow(self, filename, key)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 123, in __init__
 EditorWindow.__init__(self, *args)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 288, in __init__
 if io.loadfile(filename):
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 244, in loadfile
 self.updaterecentfileslist(filename)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 525, in updaterecentfileslist
 self.editwin.update_recent_files_list(filename)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 899, in update_recent_files_list
 if '0円' in path or not os.path.exists(path[0:-1]):
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/genericpath.py", line 19, in exists
 os.stat(path)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\U0001d53c' in position 22: ordinal not in range(256)