Ben Griffin <b...@redsnapper.net> added the comment: Erm, I don’t rightly know how to parse epaine’s comment, as it seems to relate to a version of Unicode from over a decade ago, and a wiki page that was written 12 years ago.
IIRC Python 3 was (IMO rightly) developed to default to UTF-8, and according to a much more recently edited article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8), a normative UTF-8 parser can handle any of the million+ Unicode characters, including emoji. As I pointed out in the bug report, and as mentioned by contributors on SO, TCL has seems to have fixed these issues by 8.6.10. If epaine is correct and TCL CANTFIX/WONTFIX normative utf-8 - then maybe it’s time to drop the strong relationship that Python has with tkinter. However Im pretty sure that there is no need for such a drastic measure: the UTF-8 algorithm isn’t that complex. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41212> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
