Please help test astral char display in tkinter Text (especially *nix)

Menno Holscher mennoholscher at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 07:47:59 EST 2020


Op 03-11-2020 om 04:04 schreef Terry Reedy:
> Perhaps half of the assigned chars in the first plane are printed 
> instead of being replaced with a narrow box. This includes emoticons as 
> foreground color outlines on background color.  Maybe all of the second 
> plane of extended CJK chars are printed.  The third plane is unassigned 
> and prints as unassigned boxes (with an X).
> 
> If you get errors, how many.  If you get a hang or crash, how far did 
> the program get?
> 
openSuse Linux 15.2 Leap, Python 3.6.10, tcl and tk 8.6.7

The program runs fine, but complains in the text scrollbox:
0x10000 character U+10000 is above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed by Tcl

until

0x3ffe0 character U+3ffe0 is above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed by Tcl

Menno Hölscher




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