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Tkinter and astral characters (was: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2)

From "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Tkinter and astral characters (was: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2)
Date 2024-06-24 13:03 +0200
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On 2024-06-24 01:14:22 +0100, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
> 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.

I just tried modifying
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html#a-hello-world-program
to display "Hello World \N{ROCKET}" instead (Python 3.10.12 as included
with Ubuntu 22.04). I don't get a warning or error, but the emoji isn't
displayed either.

I suspect that the default font doesn't include emojis and Tk isn't
smart enough to fall back to a different font (unlike xfce4-terminal
which shows the emoji just fine).

        hp

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Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 Rayner Lucas <usenet202101@magic-cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE> - 2024-06-21 16:49 +0100
  Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-06-22 03:42 +1000
    Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 Rayner Lucas <usenet202101@magic-cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE> - 2024-06-22 13:13 +0100
      Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-06-22 23:19 +0000
      Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-06-24 09:30 +1000
      Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2024-06-24 01:14 +0100
      Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-06-24 11:43 +1000
      Tkinter and astral characters (was: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2) "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python@hjp.at> - 2024-06-24 13:03 +0200
  Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2 Rayner Lucas <usenet202101@magic-cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE> - 2024-06-22 13:26 +0100

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