Tkinter and astral characters (was: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2)

Peter J. Holzer hjp-python at hjp.at
Mon Jun 24 07:03:45 EDT 2024


On 2024-06-24 01:14:22 +0100, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
> Tkinter in recent versions of Python can handle astral characters, at least
> back to Python 3.8, the oldest I have on my Windows PC.

I just tried modifying
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html#a-hello-world-program
to display "Hello World \N{ROCKET}" instead (Python 3.10.12 as included
with Ubuntu 22.04). I don't get a warning or error, but the emoji isn't
displayed either.

I suspect that the default font doesn't include emojis and Tk isn't
smart enough to fall back to a different font (unlike xfce4-terminal
which shows the emoji just fine).

        hp

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