On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> sorry for my somewhat disjointed replies :)
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:30:35 +0100
> Michael Lange <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> (...)
> > l = ttk.Label(root)
> > l.grid()
> > l.tk.eval(l._w + ' configure -text "Test \U0001d306 String"')
> >
> > there is actually some character displayed which looks similar to this
> > one: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D306 , which I found rather
> > surprising since with Tcl I get only a placeholder. The same happens
> > when I replace your unicode character with the smiley \U0001f600 they
> > used in the page I referred to before. tk.eval appears to do some magic
> > here.
>
> tinkering a bit more I found another solution which seems more obvious,
> however I was not able to get this working with Python3. With Python2
> when I do the following:
>
> from Tkinter import *
> import ttk
>
> root = Tk()
> l = ttk.Label(root)
> l.pack(padx=40, pady=40)
>
> s = u'Test \U0001d306 String'
> s1 = s.encode('utf-8')
> l.configure(text=s1)
>
> root.mainloop()
>
> the label's text looks like expected. Maybe that is just the same "magic"
> that tk.eval applies. It does not seem to be that easy with Python3
> though, apparently I missed some of the subtleties with Python3's unicode
> handling mechanisms.
Thanks so much for your replies!
Here's my little test script, with trying what you wrote, and the results I got
(all on python 3):
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
root = tk.Tk()
l = ttk.Label(root)
l.grid(row=0, column=0)
text = 'Test \U0001d306 String'
#l.configure(text=text)
# Result: _tkinter.TclError: character U+1d306 is above the range
(U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed by Tcl
#l.configure(text=text.encode('utf8'))
# Result: no exception, but wrong characters show up
l.tk.eval(l._w + f' configure -text "{text}"')
# Result: works!
root.mainloop()
So, tkinter maintainers, would there be a way to build this into tkinter, so it
transparently handles all unicode characters? If so, would there be interest in
patches for it?
-Ben
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