[Tkinter-discuss] Re: [MACTCL] Inserting a unicode zero-width nonbreaking space into a Text widget, from Tkinter, on a Mac

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Kenneth,


Kenneth McDonald <kmmcdonald at wisc.edu> writes:
> And then passed to Text's insert command. Unfortunately, what shows
> up on screen is a complex (perhaps Chinese) asian ideograph.

Current Mac OS X text rendering implementation is based on QuickDraw,
which is non-Unicode and very limited for stuff outside of your
current locale.  The effect you observe is common with that
implementation.

If you can recompile, try the ATSU patch from
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12997&atid=312997&func=detail&aid=638966>,
that should work for you.  One of its biggest issues at the moment is
speed.  I am actively working on that.


benny