Displaying Unicode text in Tkinter Canvas widget

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm trying to display
the Hiragana as text in a Tkinter Canvas widget.

Erik
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