This method gets the display right, however, as long as I'm asking for the world...:)

When Tk handles the conversion of non-printable characters, when I use the arrow keys to navitate in the text pane, it treats the non-printable as one character. That is to say that if I position the cursor right before the "\" and hit right arrow once, the cursor ends up after the "}". With this solution, that is not the case as I'm replacing one character with several. The translation is happening in such a way that it displays perl's notion of hex characters. I just don't know where that translation is happening.

Alternatively, if I can tell Tk to treat that series of characters (\x{10}) as only one character, that'd be acceptable too.

Finally, I'd like to thank everyone for their help thus far.

thor

Feel the white light, the light within
Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

In reply to Re^4: Displaying NUL in a TK::Text widget by thor
in thread Displaying NUL in a TK::Text widget by thor

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