Hello Monks,

Back with another unicode question.

I am running strawberry perl 5.30 under windows 11.

I want to be able to use a tk entry widget to accept and display strings containing unicode characters. Here is an example: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Tk;

# displayed in entry field as: "09 Handel_ Water Music Suite - Bouré.
+m4a"
my $str = "09 Handel_ Water Music Suite - Bouré.m4a";

my $mw = MainWindow->new(-title => "  Unicode Test");
$mw->Entry(-textvariable => \$str,
           -width => 50,
           -font => "{Lucida Fax} 12 bold",    
          )->pack(qw(-side left -expand 1 -fill x));
MainLoop();

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As indicated in the comment, the string is not displayed correctly in the entry field. Does anyone know how to fix this?

In reply to How to display/accept unicode chars in a tk entry widget by CrashBlossom

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