[issue45904] Pasting the U00FF character into Python REPL misinterprets character

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the report. macOS does not ship with the GNU readline library due to its GPL licensing and instead relies on the BSD editline library, libedit, which, while providing similar functionality, has a different API than GNU readline. However, editline does

[issue45904] Pasting the U00FF character into Python REPL misinterprets character

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[issue45904] Pasting the U00FF character into Python REPL misinterprets character

New submission from George King : Using macOS 11.6 Terminal.app with Python 3.10.0 installed directly from python.org. I open the REPL. If I enter `char(0xff)` I get back 'ÿ' as expected (U00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS). However, If I copy this character with surrounding quotes, an