FWIW on linux (fedora 35, gnome on Xorg, python & IDLE 3.10.2, Tk 8.6.10) it seems to generally not type anything non-ascii. I added a "Tamil (TamilNet 99))" layout and I can't type any tamil letters into IDLE — nothing happens unless it's a digit or punctuation shared with ASCII. But same happens with my Hebrew and Russian layouts!
Copy-paste of all these languages from other apps works. Sorry, I don't know enough about Tk[inter] to help, other than confirming this. I tried another random python/Tkinter app (`tkconch`) and it has same behavior in a single-line text input. However, `git citool` which is non-python pure Tk lets me type all the above languages into a single-line text input. пт, 4 февр. 2022 г. в 00:25, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > On 2/2/2022 2:38 PM, Mailvaganasundaram Ram Mohan wrote: > > > For many years I use python to teach programming to kids. But I am > > unable to type our Tamil language characters (such as அ, ஆ, இ, ஈ) in the > > IDLE. I can type in other editors and copy back IDLE, but directly > > typing in shell or IDLE is not possible. > > This is mostly not an IDLE issue. Your keyboard talks to your OS, which > talks to the tk gui framework, which talks to python's tkinter module, > which talks with IDLE. IDLE's only effect should be setting the font > and size to use. > > What OS are you using? On Windows, I installed Tamil(India) support. > In IDLE I typed some random letter keys after switching to Tamil input. > > >>> for c in 'ம்பதம்பதபமதப்பம': > ... print(hex(ord(c))) > ... > 0xbae > 0xbcd > 0xbaa > 0xba4 > ... > > Tamil has some extra wide characters that can interfere with editing. > That is a limitation of the tk Text widget. > > For more help, you might post to python-list. > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev >
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