[Tkinter-discuss] Hang on Macosc displaying Arabic in Tkinter Text widget

[Michael O'Donnell]

Dear all,

  The following code hangs on my MacOSX running Python 3.3.0
and Tk 8.5. It prints 1 but not 2. But if I change the font family to Times,
it doesn't hang. Any ideas?
(The text file (and code) is in the attached zip.)

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from tkinter import *
import codecs
strm = codecs.open("arabic.txt", "r", "UTF-16LE")
text = strm.read()
strm.close()
tk = Tk()
tw=Text(tk, height=8,width=60, bg='white', font="Arial 16")
tw.pack()
tw.insert(END, text)
print(1)
tw.update()
print(2)
tk.mainloop()
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