Getting Tkinter to accept cyrillic text

[Cameron Laird]

In article <83034362.0206110052.351cb526 at posting.google.com>,
DR <ypoi at spray.se> wrote:
>I need Tkinter entry and label widgets to support cyrillic letters
>(koi8-r). I read in some post that you should change
>sys.setdefaultencoding(), but that method doesn't exist in my Python
>(I use version 2.2.1) -Has this feature been changed or is my
>installation bad? Also there is this locale.setlocale() thing. What
>effect does changing it have?
>
>I really would appreciate some kind of checklist, like: Do this, then
>change that, then evereything works! Or a patch or something (Win95)
>
>Is there any comprahensive recource for this type of problem? I've
>only found some scattered posts so far.
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Tcl/Tk folks have gotten rather good with Cyrillic
(see <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ruslish > and <URL:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/3426.html >, for example.  I
haven't begun to apply this to Tkinter.  Good luck.
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