Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment: Switching to Tcl/Tk 8.5 fixes the issue for IDLE as well.
I'm leaving this bug open for future reference, and because this affects the binary installer for python. The big question: how to fix this in Python itself. I see the following options: 1) Ignore the issue 2) Include Tcl/Tk 8.5 in the OSX installer I'm not to happy about this because this would bloat the OSX installer even more and would probably not what heavy Tkinter users would like anyway. 3) Add 2 versions of Tkinter.so to the installer: one linked to Tcl 8.4 the other to Tcl 8.5, and automaticly load the right one when someone imports Tkinter. Then document that users should install a 3th-party Tk 8.5 to fix unicode issues. 4) Require Tk 8.5 on the users system. This last option is IMHO not acceptable, for better or worse IDLE is the most visible bit of the Python installation for new users and that should therefore work out of the box. ---------- resolution: -> wont fix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6109> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
