Re: Please help test astral char display in tkinter Text (especially *nix)

2020-11-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Terry Reedy writes: > Perhaps half of the assigned chars in the first plane are printed > instead of being replaced with a narrow box. This includes emoticons > as foreground color outlines on background color. Maybe all of the > second plane of extended CJK chars are printed. The third plane i

Re: Please help test astral char display in tkinter Text (especially *nix)

2020-11-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/4/2020 7:47 AM, Menno Holscher wrote: Op 03-11-2020 om 04:04 schreef Terry Reedy: Perhaps half of the assigned chars in the first plane are printed instead of being replaced with a narrow box. This includes emoticons as foreground color outlines on background color.  Maybe all of the sec

Re: Please help test astral char display in tkinter Text (especially *nix)

2020-11-04 Thread Menno Holscher
Op 03-11-2020 om 04:04 schreef Terry Reedy: Perhaps half of the assigned chars in the first plane are printed instead of being replaced with a narrow box. This includes emoticons as foreground color outlines on background color.  Maybe all of the second plane of extended CJK chars are printed. 

Please help test astral char display in tkinter Text (especially *nix)

2020-11-03 Thread Terry Reedy
tcl/tk supports unicode chars in the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane, utf-8 encoded with 1-3 bytes). The presence of chars in other plains ('astral', utf-8 encoded with 4 bytes, I believe) in a tkinter Text widget messages up *editing*, but they can sometimes be displayed with appropriate glyphs