Tkinter - non-ASCII characters in text widgets problem

[Sebastian Pająk]

> Can, but should not.
> I read that the problem is when using the Polish language only. Otherwise
> things work normally. Is that correct?

Yes, correct

> If so then byte swap may be a problem.  Using the u'string' should solve
> that. I am assuming you have the Polish alphabet working correctly on your
> machine. I think I read that was so in an earlier posting.
>
> Are there any problems with his alphabet scrambling on your machine?
> If so that needs investigating.  Here I assume you are reading Polish from
> him on your machine and not a network translator version.
>

The original thread is here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-June/717666.html
I've explained the problem there