When left- or right-going in line with ctrl-arrow
(left/right) I have encountered problems:

example word with polish (cp1250) diacritics: za|óB
(last 4 letters might be unreadable) this keybord
shortcut stops each time diacritic letter is
encountered, not at the end of the word. It is
frustrating as I have many strings and comments in
Polish. I thing it might work bad also in the case of
any other non-ASCII letters.

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The control-{right,left} action appears to be
implemented in Tkinter, probably in Tcl/Tk, it's
not an IDLE issue.

Someone should check if the problem exists in 
Tk.  Passing this on to the Tkinter crew.

This is not a bug in tkinter either, unfortunately. Please report it at
tk tracker: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktoolkit/

Here is the equivalent tcl code to reproduce the problem (you could use
it while re-reporting at the tk tracker):

$ wish8.5
% pack [text .t]
% .t insert 1.0 abc
% .t insert 1.0 "z\u0102\u02c7"