On 3/18/2016 12:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Hmmm, well, nobody uses UCS-2 any more, since that only covers the first > 65536 code points. Unfortunately, tcl, or at least tk, still uses ucs-2. Hence tkinter and applications thereof, like IDLE, can only display BMP code points. A real nuisance. -- Terry Jan Reedy