On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 02.08.16 um 22:10 schrieb Ned Deily: >> >> "For the initial alpha releases of Python 3.6, the installer is linked >> with Tcl/Tk 8.5; this will change prior to the beta releases of 3.6.0." > > > Let me also convey some insider information from the Tcl world: the upcoming > 8.7 (I'll expect it next year) will have full Unicode support (>BMP).
Yay!! > Because of compatibility issues with the C API, this will be done in the way > that Tcl unicode strings are considered UTF-16 instead of UCS-2. So adapting > Tkinter should be relatively easy in the end, if it passes UTF-8 strings, > then there is zero change, if it passes Tcl_UniChar, then these must be > convrted to UTF-16. Ehh. Well, it's no worse than ECMAScript uses. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
