[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

Ned Deily added the comment: For the record, as of Python 2.7 and 3.2, there *are* now two Python installers for OS X, one that continues to support Tk 8.4 on 10.3+ and one that supports 8.5 on 10.6+. Caveats and details here: http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ -- nosy: +ned

[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

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[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Switching to Tcl/Tk 8.5 fixes the issue for IDLE as well. I'm leaving this bug open for future reference, and because this affects the binary installer for python. The big question: how to fix this in Python itself. I see the following options: 1) Ignore t

[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: This is definitly an Tk issue, the issue seems to be fixed in Tcl/Tk 8.5. That is, when I install Tk 8.5 and rerun the Tcl scriptlet I posted earlier the problem goes away. I'm currently rebuilding a version of the tkinter extension that links to Tk 8.5 to c

[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: The attached file is an example of text that works fine in Textmate but renders incorrectly in IDLE. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14079/Chinese.txt ___ Python tracker

[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: The same fontname and file display correctly in programs (such as Textmate). Even when both textmate and IDLE have been configured to use the same font the text looks fine in textmate and broken in IDLE. My gut feeling is that this is an issue with the Tk p

[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Are these characters displayed correctly in other places? Usually characters that are not available in a specific font are replaced by an empty box. In some cases the missing characters can be borrowed by other fonts, but IIRC that depends on the application. If

[issue6109] IDLE rendering issue with oriental characters on OSX

New submission from Ronald Oussoren : IDLE has problems rendering some oriental characters on OSX. One way to reproduce this: * Start IDLE * Open the "Preferences..." menu * Scroll down in the list of fonts until you reach the 'Osaka' font The font just below the Osaka font has a number of ori