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Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5
Date 2016-08-03 18:58 +1000
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 02.08.16 um 22:10 schrieb Ned Deily:
>>
>> "For the initial alpha releases of Python 3.6, the installer is linked
>> with Tcl/Tk 8.5; this will change prior to the beta releases of 3.6.0."
>
>
> Let me also convey some insider information from the Tcl world: the upcoming
> 8.7 (I'll expect it next year) will have full Unicode support (>BMP).

Yay!!

> Because of compatibility issues with the C API, this will be done in the way
> that Tcl unicode strings are considered UTF-16 instead of UCS-2. So adapting
> Tkinter should be relatively easy in the end, if it passes UTF-8 strings,
> then there is zero change, if it passes Tcl_UniChar, then these must be
> convrted to UTF-16.

Ehh. Well, it's no worse than ECMAScript uses.

ChrisA

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Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 munozvvaleria@gmail.com - 2016-08-02 01:21 -0700
  Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-08-02 10:29 +0200
  Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 20:21 +1000
  Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-08-02 15:08 -0400
  Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Ned Deily <nad@python.org> - 2016-08-02 16:10 -0400
    Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-08-03 10:30 +0200
      Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 18:58 +1000
  Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-08-04 18:25 -0700
    Re: Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5 Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2016-08-04 22:06 -0500

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