2009/6/25 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: >> 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.
But I tried this here without success >> After applying this, the effect remains the same - one big garbage. > > Can you please be more specific? What is "one big garbage"? > There is a square (or some other weird sign) in place where polish accented character should be (like "ęłąśł" etc) This problem is only on mac os x and it doesn't apply to button widget (where characters are correct) >> 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. > There is no wish. I'm talking about build-in Tkinter (isn't Tk build-in Python?). btw. I'm workin on Windows, my friend on Mac - he points me the problem he has with my script. He is not a computer geek nor a programmer - he even doesn't know what wish/Tk or Python is Does different endianness can have something to do here? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list