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New REPL on Windows exits when accented character is pasted/typed #131878

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When pasting an accented character like ñ or é, or typing one such as ´p and pressing Enter, then up arrow, the new REPL on Windows will exit with the following error:

Python 3.14.0a6+ (heads/fix_non_string_candidates_exit_repl-dirty:8008a588342, Mar 29 2025, 08:15:) [MSC v.1943 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\__main__.py", line 6, in <module>
    __pyrepl_interactive_console()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\main.py", line 59, in interactive_console
    run_multiline_interactive_console(console)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\simple_interact.py", line 137, in run_multiline_interactive_console
    statement = multiline_input(more_lines, ps1, ps2)
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\readline.py", line 389, in multiline_input
    return reader.readline()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\reader.py", line 750, in readline
    self.handle1()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\reader.py", line 706, in handle1
    event = self.console.get_event(block=False)
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\windows_console.py", line 471, in get_event
    self.event_queue.push(rec.Event.KeyEvent.uChar.UnicodeChar)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\ddini\PycharmProjects\cpython\Lib\_pyrepl\base_eventqueue.py", line 88, in push
    assert len(self.buf) == 1
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError

In these cases, len(self.buf) is 3 instead of 1.

I'm running Python in Windows Terminal, chcp gives 850, changing it to 65001 (UTF-8) makes no difference.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Windows

Output from running 'python -VV' on the command line:

Python 3.14.0a6+ (heads/main-dirty:7c3692fe275, Mar 24 2025, 19:20:37) [MSC v.1942 64 bit (AMD64)]

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