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Bug 89098

Summary:

Tk/Tcl handling of UTF-8 appears broken

Product:

[Retired] Red Hat Linux

Reporter:

Michael Fulbright <msf>

Component:

tcltk

Assignee:

Jens Petersen <petersen>

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CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

QA Contact:

Bill Huang <bhuang>

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medium

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medium

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mihai.ibanescu, uckelman

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2004-02-26 07:25:04 UTC

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Description	Flags
Sample program to trigger utf-8 issue	none
Tkinter equivalent? to utf-8.wish	none

Description Michael Fulbright 2003-04-17 16:47:40 UTC

The attached program runs fine on a Red Hat Linux 8 system, but displays a
mixture of characters and square boxes on Shrike.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-04-17 16:48:25 UTC

Created attachment 91178 [details]
Sample program to trigger utf-8 issue

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2003-06-18 02:39:26 UTC

Reproduced.  Wonder if this is related to the move to ucs4 for python.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2003-06-18 02:50:49 UTC

Indeed it is.  Removing tcltk-8.3.5-ucs4-for-py.patch, it displays just fine.

Misa, do you have any utf-8 test-cases for tkinter?

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2003-07-04 21:38:50 UTC

In tcltk-8.3.5-90 I have disabled the ucs4 patch for now, since it seems
to be breaking utf-8 support.  But this is probably not the final
solution.  At least now "utf-8.wish" displays ok again, though the
equivalent(?) Tkinter python script does not.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2003-07-04 21:51:27 UTC

Created attachment 92758 [details]
Tkinter equivalent? to utf-8.wish

Actually this script doesn't seem to display correctly with
or without the patch.  What is the right way to do this with
python and Tkinter?

Comment 6 Mihai Ibanescu 2004-04-16 21:45:13 UTC

try:

... text=u'...'

instead of

... text='...'

Works on my FC2 box