On 3/18/2016 12:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Hmmm, well, nobody uses UCS-2 any more, since that only covers the first 65536 code points.
Unfortunately, tcl, or at least tk, still uses ucs-2. Hence tkinter and applications thereof, like IDLE, can only display BMP code points. A real nuisance.
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