Tcl/Tk for Python 3.6.0a3 on Os X 10.9.5

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 02.08.16 um 22:10 schrieb Ned Deily:
>>
>> "For the initial alpha releases of Python 3.6, the installer is linked
>> with Tcl/Tk 8.5; this will change prior to the beta releases of 3.6.0."
>
>
> Let me also convey some insider information from the Tcl world: the upcoming
> 8.7 (I'll expect it next year) will have full Unicode support (>BMP).

Yay!!

> Because of compatibility issues with the C API, this will be done in the way
> that Tcl unicode strings are considered UTF-16 instead of UCS-2. So adapting
> Tkinter should be relatively easy in the end, if it passes UTF-8 strings,
> then there is zero change, if it passes Tcl_UniChar, then these must be
> convrted to UTF-16.

Ehh. Well, it's no worse than ECMAScript uses.

ChrisA