Message155933
> Is the following reasonable: The IDLE shell console has a locale of
> "non-BMP utf8"?
[BMP utf8]
That's indeed the approach that Andrew and I were discussing.
Unfortunately, there is no codec for it yet. We were discussing
to add a "utf8bom" encoding to Python. This is a medium-sized
project, though (and again out of scope for this issue).
> If so, would it be reasonable to add a menu item to switch locales
> for the shell? This amounts to adding some extra code to
> OutputWindow's write() to raise encoding errors if the string
> contains unsupported characters, and possibly replacing characters to
> work around Tcl/Tk's non-BMP limitation.
Please open a separate issue for this. |
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2012-03-15 18:50:29 | loewis | set | recipients:
+ loewis, terry.reedy, vstinner, vbr, ned.deily, ezio.melotti, roger.serwy, asvetlov, python-dev |
2012-03-15 18:50:29 | loewis | link | issue14200 messages |
2012-03-15 18:50:29 | loewis | create | |
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