> I've tried various UTF file encoding (also with BOM mark), use of > u"text"
Always use u"text". This should work. Everything else might not work. > After applying this, the effect remains the same - one big garbage. Can you please be more specific? What is "one big garbage"? > I'm out of ideas: my script is UTF-8 in 101%; Mac and Windows both > support UTF-8, Python also supports it - so where is the problem? Most likely, Tk does not work correctly on your system. See whether you can get correct results with wish. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list