Displaying Unicode text in Tkinter Canvas widget

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I'm writing a little app for helping to learn the Japanese
Hiragana character set. At the moment I'm displaying GIF
images of the characters but I would much rather use
Unicode text. 

I've had a look at the python.org web site and installed Tamito 
Kajiyama's Japanese codecs. I've also installed Tk/Tcl 8.3 and
recompiled/installed Python 2.0.

Commands like:

    print unicode ('abcdefg', 'japanese.iso-2022-jp')

work without error messages, but I would like to know how
to display Hiragan characters without making Japanese the
default encoding.

TIA,
Erik
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