Displaying IPA characters in Tkinter

[Erik Max Francis]

Mickel Grönroos wrote:

> 1. How do I display IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters
> in
> Tkinter (labels, canvas text objects)? (I need to do this on
> Unix/Linux
> and Windows 2000/XP and was hoping that I would not need to install
> any
> new fonts.)
> 
> 2. How do I make my Tkinter application accept IPA characters as input
> in
> entry fields?

There are IPA glyphs in Unicode, but I don't know whether Tkinter
supports Unicode or not.

If all else fails, there are ASCII forms of IPA that you could
potentially use provided you had careful documentation.

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