New submission from Vlastimil Brom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
While experimenting with the new unicodedata for version 5.1 (many
thanks for it!) I discovered some strange behaviour of Idle with regard
to a character not available in any font on my system, namely Latin
capital letter sharp s - U+1E9E.
Cf. the following sessions:
Python 3.0rc2 (r30rc2:67141, Nov 7 2008, 11:43:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
...
IDLE 3.0rc2
>>> print("\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S}")
ẞ
>>> print("\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA}")
Ş
>>> print("\N{PHAGS-PA LETTER KA}")
ꡀ
>>> print("\ufff0")
>>> hex(ord("ẞ"))
'0x1e9e'
>>> hex(ord("Ş"))
'0x15e'
>>>
Of course, the exact view cannot be copied, but basically I see very
similar glyphs for the first two characters, while I had expected a
"square"-sign or something for the first one; this is what I get with
other surely unavailable glyph as well as a non existent character. See
the attached screenshot.
However, the characters remain clearly distinguished, as can be seen
e.g. after copying them as a parameter of ord(...).
Python 2.6 behaves the same way:
=======================
Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
...
IDLE 2.6
>>> print u"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S}"
ẞ
>>>
...
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Not that it is much important, but I found it a bit surprising. I'm
using WinXPh SP3 Czech.
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components: IDLE, Tkinter, Unicode
files: idle-capital-sharp-s.jpg
messages: 75613
nosy: vbr
severity: normal
status: open
title: Idle - incorrectly displaying a character (Latin capital letter sharp s)
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11963/idle-capital-sharp-s.jpg
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