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Author George Pantazes
Recipients George Pantazes, terry.reedy
Date 2019-06-24.22:23:36
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IDLE crashes if the user scrolls with the Mac mousepad (using two fingers, either up or down).

```$ python -m idlelib # Then I use the mousepad to scroll in the IDLE window
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/idlelib/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    idlelib.pyshell.main()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/idlelib/pyshell.py", line 1572, in main
    root.mainloop()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1283, in mainloop
    self.tk.mainloop(n)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
```

System Info: MacOS Mojave 10.14.5 (18F132)

Python:
3.7.3 (default, Mar 27 2019, 09:23:15) 
[Clang 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.3)]
sys.version_info(major=3, minor=7, micro=3, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
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2019-06-24 22:23:36George Pantazessetrecipients: + George Pantazes, terry.reedy
2019-06-24 22:23:36George Pantazessetmessageid: <1561415016.56.0.472202468675.issue37391@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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