On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 08:20, Rayner Lucas via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > In article <mailman.159.1718991773.2909.python-l...@python.org>, > ros...@gmail.com says... > > > > If you switch to a Linux system, it should work correctly, and you'll > > be able to migrate the rest of the way onto Python 3. Once you achieve > > that, you'll be able to operate on Windows or Linux equivalently, > > since Python 3 solved this problem. At least, I *think* it will; my > > current system has a Python 2 installed, but doesn't have tkinter > > (because I never bothered to install it), and it's no longer available > > from the upstream Debian repos, so I only tested it in the console. > > But the decoding certainly worked. > > Thank you for the idea of trying it on a Linux system. I did so, and my > example code generated the error: > > _tkinter.TclError: character U+1f40d is above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF) > allowed by Tcl > > So it looks like the problem is ultimately due to a limitation of > Tcl/Tk. Yep, that seems to be the case. Not sure if that's still true on a more recent Python, but it does look like you won't get astral characters in tkinter on the one you're using.
> I'm still not sure why it doesn't give an error on Windows and Because of the aforementioned weirdness of old (that is: pre-3.3) Python versions on Windows. They were built to use a messy, buggy hybrid of UCS-2 and UTF-16. Sometimes this got you around problems, or at least masked them; but it wouldn't be reliable. That's why, in Python 3.3, all that was fixed :) > instead either works (when UTF-8 encoding is specified) or converts the > out-of-range characters to ones it can display (when the encoding isn't > specified). But now I know what the root of the problem is, I can deal > with it appropriately (and my curiosity is at least partly satisfied). Converting out-of-range characters is fairly straightforward, at least as long as your Python interpreter is correctly built (so, Python 3, or a Linux build of Python 2). "".join(c if ord(c) < 65536 else "?" for c in text) > This has given me a much better understanding of what I need to do in > order to migrate to Python 3 and add proper support for non-ASCII > characters, so I'm very grateful for your help! > Excellent. Hopefully all this mess is just a transitional state and you'll get to something that REALLY works, soon! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
