Re: Using Unicode in Tk

This is just a guess, which I got to work, on my machine anyways. I'm still in the woods with all these encoding problems. It's further compounded by the fact that my provincial editor, still shows the Š as an Angstrom. But this Tk script shows the letter properly for me in the label. I had to open it in yudit ( a unicode editor ) to copy-and-paste it in.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use utf8;
use Tk;
#$Tk::encodeFallback=1; 

my $main = tkinit();
my $text = 'contestant has an Š' ;
$main->Label(-text  =>$text )->pack();
MainLoop;
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Re^2: Using Unicode in Tk by mpolo (Chaplain) on Oct 21, 2006 at 13:58 UTC
Thank you. I was missing the `use utf8;`. All is well with my program now. I suppose that means all the comments about Tk not working with Unicode that I found are outdated. Nice to know.	[reply]
Re^3: Using Unicode in Tk by vkon (Curate) on Oct 22, 2006 at 21:26 UTC
You're right, Tk became Unicode-capable starting from 804.xxx versions, so now its just works. Few years ago there was a gap, however, when Unicode appeared in Perl and Tcl/Tk, but not in perl/Tk, now the situation improved,	[reply]