On 1/7/2013 7:57 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:

<<< print('\U0001d11e')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
     print('\U0001d11e')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'UCS-2' codec can't encode character '\U0001d11e'
in position 0: Non-BMP character not supported in Tk

The message comes from printing to a tk text widget (the IDLE shell), not from creating the 1 char string. c = '\U0001d11e' works fine. When you have problems with creating and printing unicode, *separate* creating from printing to see where the problem is. (I do not know if the brand new tcl/tk 8.6 is any better.)

The windows console also chokes, but with a different message.

>>> c='\U0001d11e'
>>> print(c)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Programs\Python33\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\U0001d11e' in posit
ion 0: character maps to <undefined>

Yes, this is very annoying, especially in Win 7.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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