[I18n-sig] Re: [XML-SIG] Re: Unicode debate

[Guido van Rossum]

[Moving this discussion to i18n-sig, where it belongs]

> > 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?

Yes -- I just checked in a patch to _tkinter that uses
Tcl_NewUnicodeObj() when a Unicode string is passed to Tcl (for Tcl
8.2 and later).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)