On 2024-06-24 00:30, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 08:20, Rayner Lucas via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
In article <mailman.159.1718991773.2909.python-l...@python.org>,
ros...@gmail.com says...
>
> If you switch to a Linux system, it should work correctly, and you'll
> be able to migrate the rest of the way onto Python 3. Once you achieve
> that, you'll be able to operate on Windows or Linux equivalently,
> since Python 3 solved this problem. At least, I *think* it will; my
> current system has a Python 2 installed, but doesn't have tkinter
> (because I never bothered to install it), and it's no longer available
> from the upstream Debian repos, so I only tested it in the console.
> But the decoding certainly worked.
Thank you for the idea of trying it on a Linux system. I did so, and my
example code generated the error:
_tkinter.TclError: character U+1f40d is above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF)
allowed by Tcl
So it looks like the problem is ultimately due to a limitation of
Tcl/Tk.
Yep, that seems to be the case. Not sure if that's still true on a
more recent Python, but it does look like you won't get astral
characters in tkinter on the one you're using.
[snip]
Tkinter in recent versions of Python can handle astral characters, at
least back to Python 3.8, the oldest I have on my Windows PC.
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