Tcl/Tkinter problem

[Xiao-Qin Xia]

Exellent! After removed gb2312.enc, everything is ok now.
Thanks a lot!

Xiao-Qin

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Xiao-Qin Xia <xx758 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> If I rename the directory /usr/lib/tcl8.3 and /usr/lib/tk8.3 to anything
>> other, python1.5 cannot use Tkinter either. So I guess python1.5 and
>> python2.2 use the same Tk library. But why they behavior different? Does
>> anybody know how to solve this problem?
> 
> I assume Tk tries to convert Unicode strings to the encoding of your
> font and crashes in doing so. This problem then would not occur if
> there are no Unicode strings, as is the case with Python 1.5.
> 
> I would guess that this is a bug in Tk; you may want to try Tcl 8.4
> instead. Alternatively, try removing some of the encoding files in
> tcl, e.g. gb2312.enc or big5.enc.
> 
> HTH,
> Martin