On 12/16/2013 12:32 PM, wmcbr...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a Tkinter app that can optionally label some buttons with
certain Unicode glyphs that aren't always available (depending on the
OS, etc.).
It depends on the font in use. The best scenario would be to always use
the same unicode font. Idle, built on tkinter, has a configuration
dialog that gets a list of available fonts and sets the one the user
selects. I use Lucida Sans Unicode. It is not very pretty, but it seems
to cover much the BMP. AFAIK, it should be available on all Windows from
XP on. I do not know what comes with *nix and mac, but from reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font#List_of_Unicode_fonts
there seem to be TrueType fonts that you could install with your
software: FreeSerif (etc), GNU Unifont, (both GPL), BitstreamCyber (free
for non-commercial use). The font table linked above is followed by
table indicating something about coverage. Unifont is the champ.
> When they aren't available, Tkinter renders them as
"\uNNNN". What I'd like to do is check whether the glyphs are
available, and fall back to my own alternate text for the button if
not. Can I do this?
Don't know. See the 'Utility software' section of the page above.
I'd also like to do the same in pygtk.
No idea.
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