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Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2

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On 2024-06-24 00:30, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 08:20, Rayner Lucas via Python-list
> <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>>
>> In article <mailman.159.1718991773.2909.python-list@python.org>,
>> rosuav@gmail.com says...
>> >
>> > If you switch to a Linux system, it should work correctly, and you'll
>> > be able to migrate the rest of the way onto Python 3. Once you achieve
>> > that, you'll be able to operate on Windows or Linux equivalently,
>> > since Python 3 solved this problem. At least, I *think* it will; my
>> > current system has a Python 2 installed, but doesn't have tkinter
>> > (because I never bothered to install it), and it's no longer available
>> > from the upstream Debian repos, so I only tested it in the console.
>> > But the decoding certainly worked.
>>
>> Thank you for the idea of trying it on a Linux system. I did so, and my
>> example code generated the error:
>>
>> _tkinter.TclError: character U+1f40d is above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF)
>> allowed by Tcl
>>
>> So it looks like the problem is ultimately due to a limitation of
>> Tcl/Tk.
> Yep, that seems to be the case. Not sure if that's still true on a
> more recent Python, but it does look like you won't get astral
> characters in tkinter on the one you're using.
> 
[snip]
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.

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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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