[issue14777] Tkinter clipboard_get() decodes characters incorrectly

[Thomas Kluyver]

Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> added the comment:

On this computer, I see this from Tcl:

$ wish
% clipboard get
abc\u20ac

But here Python's following suit:

>>> root.clipboard_get()
'abc\\u20ac'

Which is odd, because as far as I know, my two computers run the same OS (Ubuntu 12.04) in the same configuration. I briefly thought the presence of xsel might be affecting it, but uninstalling it doesn't seem to make any difference.

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