Tkinter / Unicode and UTF-8

[Martin v. Löwis]

Thomas <pushcold at hotpop.foo> writes:

> Now I switched to Fedora Core 1 Linux (where Python/Tk does not 
> work without fixing it - but I described that in another thread) 
> and I have to pass UTF-8 encoded strings to Tk widgets (i.e. I 
> cannot directly pass Unicode strings any more).

Then you fixed it incorrectly.

> - Was Tkinter changed to behave like that? 

No.

> - Will it stay like that in the future?

No, it wasn't even changed.

> - Isn't it strange, that you have to pass UTF-8 encoded strings
>   to Tk widgets, but that the widgets will return Unicode strings?

You don't have to. It works just fine with Unicode strings.

> Thanks in advance for any comments and hints; I have to change
> a lot of code if passing UTF-8 encoded strings to Tk widgets
> is now the only way to do it. And before doing that, I would
> really like to know what the 'correct' way is.

Not change the code.

Regards,
Martin