how to display unicode in a Label in Tkinter

[Matthias Huening]

alikakakhel3 at hotmail.com (Ali) wrote in
news:8f17f4bc.0408161437.2f557935 at posting.google.com: 

> Eric Brunel <eric_brunel at despammed.com> wrote in message
> news:<cfpop0$jlt$1 at news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>... 
>> Ali wrote:
>> > I was wondering how one would go about displaying unicode in a
>> > Label object in a Tkinter window. I am trying to display text in
>> > another language. Please help.
>> 
>> Just put it in a Unicode string or in a raw string encoded in UTF-8
>> and you should be going:
>> 
>>  >>> from Tkinter import *
>>  >>> root = Tk()
>>  >>> s = 'àéèù: ça marche!'
>>  >>> u = unicode(s, 'iso8859-1')
>>  >>> Label(root, text=u).pack()
>> 
>> (The code above supposes your default encoding is iso8859-1, a.k.a
>> latin-1; otherwise, you can do: s = '\xe0\xe9\xe8\xf9: \xe7a
>> marche!') 
>> 
>> HTH
> 
> So how I write in Arabic?

For Arabic you'll probably use Unicode (in which case you can just use 
the text in Tkinter) or you'll have tekst encoded as 'iso8859-6'. Then 
you have to use something like:
>>> u = unicode(s, 'iso8859-6')

Hope this helps.
Matthias