[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

Jim Jewett added the comment: @Ben Griffin -- Unicode has defined astral characters for a while, but they were explicitly intended for rare characters, with any living languages intended for the basic plane. It is only the most recent releases of unicode that have broken the "most people wo

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Python internally uses an encoding system that represents all unicode chars efficiently, including O(1) indexing. It is not utf-8, which does not do O(1) indexing. There is already an issue about upgrading (separately) the Python Windows and macOS installer

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

Ben Griffin added the comment: Wow, well if you are right, then TCL/TK is a showstopper for us, and we will have to consider an alternative to tkinter. Frankly, I am aghast that any active software would be limited to fixed width characters. We moved our languages over to multiwidth (utf-8)

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

E. Paine added the comment: Sorry, the point I was trying to make was that, unlike UTF-8, Tcl doesn't support variable length characters and they are instead fixed at 16 bits (by default). So, while Python and UTF-8 are perfectly happy with the emoji, unless Tcl is compiled with a particular

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

Ben Griffin added the comment: Erm, I don’t rightly know how to parse epaine’s comment, as it seems to relate to a version of Unicode from over a decade ago, and a wiki page that was written 12 years ago. IIRC Python 3 was (IMO rightly) developed to default to UTF-8, and according to a much

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

E. Paine added the comment: This is a Tcl issue, as Tcl is designed for characters up to 16 bits. The fact that Chip is showing at all is very surprising, though any character outside of this 16-bit range should be considered unpredictable. "The majority of characters used in the human langu

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

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[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

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[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

New submission from Ben Griffin : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62713741/tkinter-and-32-bit-unicode-duplicating-any-fix Emoji are doubling up when using canvas.create_text() This is reported to work on tcl/tk 8.6.10 but there’s no. Way to upgrade tcl/tk using the standard installs from th