On Monday, December 16, 2013 10:58:06 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I would not assume that the default covers more than ascii.
In this case, I already know that the glyphs I chose work with the default
fonts for OS X 10.4+ and Windows 7+, but not for (for example) Win XP.
> But to answer your
I'm not going to control the font. This is for a program that's distributed to
the general public, for use on a wide variety of systems. But what I do in the
current version is to use the ASCII label strings by default, and have a
command-line option to select the "graphical" (non-ASCII Unicode)
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.). When
they aren't available, Tkinter renders them as "\u". What I'd like to do is
check whether the glyphs are available, and fall back to my own a
