| This may be just a Mac problem, but I find that in MacOS (10.4) I can only get Tkinter to display the characters in the Latin-1 set and Japanese. Possibly others, I don't know, but many Unicode characters display as garbage characters. The simplest way to illustrate this is with the little Romanian "hello world" program that Jason Orendorff uses to illustrate Unicode display in Tkinter on his oft-cited "Unicode for Programmers" site: http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html ############################################### # hello-romanian.py - Demonstrates Tkinter's Unicode support # # This sample code accompanies the article "Unicode for Programmers" # at http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode . from Tkinter import * import tkFont root = Tk() myFont = tkFont.Font(size=18) w = Label(root, text=u'Bun\u0103-diminea\u021ba, lume', font=myFont) w.pack() root.mainloop() #################################################### The two non-Latin-1 characters in the Romanian string appear as squares. This also happens when I explicitly set the font family to a Unicode font like 'Arial Unicode' or 'Lucida Grande'. Of course it's not just Romanian. I need Ethiopic in particular, and will need other character sets later on, and I can't get it to work. Am I missing something? Or is this a limitation of Tkinter in MacOS (in which case it's not going to be very useful for me)? (I'm running Python 2.5, but this happened in 2.4 too.) Mike Gasser Indiana University |
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