[XML-SIG] Re: Unicode debate

Henry S. Thompson ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
05 May 2000 09:21:41 +0100


"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:

> Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> > Thanks -- but that's really Tcl's fault, since the only way to get
> > character data *into* Tcl (or out of it) is through the UTF-8
> > encoding.
> 
> from http://dev.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.3/TclLib/StringObj.htm
> 
>     Tcl_NewUnicodeObj(Tcl_UniChar* unicode, int numChars)
> 
>     Tcl_NewUnicodeObj and Tcl_SetUnicodeObj create a new
>     object or modify an existing object to hold a copy of the
>     Unicode string given by unicode and numChars.
> 
>     (Tcl_UniChar* is currently the same thing as Py_UNICODE*)
> 

Any way this can be exploited in Tkinter?

ht
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