Displaying IPA characters in Tkinter

[Mickel Grönroos]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I was planning on using worldbet as input format, but I would like to
display the data in an IPA font.

This is what I have so far:

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import Tkinter
import tkFont

root = Tkinter.Tk()

## The following is gibberish
u_ipa = u"\u0250 \u0268 \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL}"

## This font on my Redhat 7.0 seems to support IPA glyphs
font = tkFont.Font(root, family="clearlyu", size="24")

label1 = Tkinter.Label(root, text=u_ipa, font=font)
label1.pack()

root.mainloop()
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So yes, Tkinter can show IPA glyphs on labels at least.

/Mickel

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