Kurt B. Kaiser <k...@shore.net> added the comment: Tcl/Tk uses modified utf-8 internally. This includes using 0xC080, a multibyte Unicode null character, for embedded nulls that work with C's null terminated strings. Java does the same.
Note that typing Ctrl-space and Ctrl-2 are conventional ways to enter a null from the keyboard. That's the reason a null char is associated with those key combinations. When Tcl exports Unicode, it is supposed to be strict utf-8. Until Tcl8.5, the %A (Unicode character corresponding to an event) was incorrectly leaking the modified Unicode null. _tkinter.c.2.patch is narrowly focused: if PythonCmd raises a UnicodeDecodeError and if the string passed in an arg is 0xC080, it is replaced with the Unicode null 0x00. ---------- assignee: ned.deily -> kbk components: +Unicode nosy: +kbk resolution: -> accepted Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21954/tkinter.c.2.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1028> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
