[Tkinter-discuss] Unicode range

2021-01-04 Thread Vasilis Vlachoudis
Hi all, how can I "replace/strip" unicode characters that are out of the accepted tk range before inserting them to Text()? File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tkinter/__init__.py", line 3272, in insert self.tk.call((self._w, 'insert', index, chars) + args) _tkinter.TclError: character U+1c784 is abo

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Unicode range

2021-01-04 Thread Nam Nguyen via Tkinter-discuss
Hi Vasilis, Perhaps by removing characters that are outside of that range? The error message gives you a range, from 0 to 65535. So this line might do. s = ''.join(c for c in s if 0 < ord(c) < 65535) Cheers, Nam On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 1:25 AM Vasilis Vlachoudis < vasilis.vlachou...@cern.ch> wr

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Unicode range

2021-01-04 Thread Vasilis Vlachoudis
Many thanks Nam, I followed your suggestion and modified a bit as _UNICODE_RANGE = re.compile(u'[^\u-\u]', re.UNICODE) ... except tk.TclError: # when it fails try to remove unicode outside the accepted range self.text.insert("0.0", _UNICODE_RANGE.sub("?",log.messages)) which is fa