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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> >> The limitation is that this will not work if any of the file names
>> >> contain astral (non-BMP) chars because tk cannot handle such characters.
>> >
>> > What are "astral chars"?
>>
>> Unicode characters beyond U+FFFF.
>
> I see, for very exotic character sets, like Klingon, etc :-)
> In my case, I can simple ignore them.

And other exotic character sets, like Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs#CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_B

But I'm sure you can ignore them, too. Hardly anyone on this planet
speaks Chinese.

ChrisA