Help: Chinese charactor in Tkinter

[Zhenlei Jia]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, jepler epler wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:16:53 -0400, Zhenlei Jia
>  <zj8k at node14.unix.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
> >I am trying to display Chinese charactor in Tkinter. The following is 
> >the code I've tried, but the texts were displied as "?". Had I missed
> >somthing, or just I can't do it on my system? I am using MacPython 2.0b1,
> >Tcl & Tk 8.3.0 on MacOS 8.6, I have installed Chinese Language Kit, and I
> >can display Chinese char in java, also using unicode.
> 
> In tcl, strings are converted from various character sets to the
> "system encoding" by way of the command "encoding convertfrom".
> 
> This appears to be supported internally by Python in Modules/_tkinter.c:
> AsObj() (the block if (PyUnicode_Check(value)) ...), so I'm not sure
> why this doesn't work.  I would test this out myself, but the version
> of tk I have installed here (8.0) is too old to support unicode.
> 
> If you can execute tk's "wish" program directly, try running the following
> code:
> 	button .b -text \u5413abcd -font {Song -12}
> if you can see the chinese character now, the fault lies somewhere
> within Python; if not, the fault lies somewhere within tk.
I have tried it, no lucky. But I can get the right result on a Win
System(don't know the version of Tcl/Tk, but they came with python1.6b1) 
. Maybe there is somthing wrong with the installation of Chinese
Language Kit of the Mac(although other App. can work well).

Thanks for your advise!

Regards, 

Zhenlei Jia