re,
well, please disregard my last email, i just tried to compile 8.4.9 
considering the release date of the atsu8.4 patch, and it is actually 
working nicely!
many thanks for the tips,
vincent

vincent rioux wrote:

>  Hi Alastair,
>  Just tried to compile tcltk with Benjamin's patch for unicode fonts 
>  display.
>  Tried it with 8.4.12 and then 8.4.10 with no success.
>  With the patch on tk8.4.10, i get numerous errors of non declared symbols.
>  Worse, without the patch i still can't compile tcltk8.4.10, at the 
>  very last compillation step, i get this:
>  ld: warning prebinding disabled because of undefined symbols
>  ld: Undefined symbols:
>  _TkpMeasureCharsInContext
>  _TkpDrawCharsInContext
>  I guess i must be wrong somewhere.
>  Is there a version of tcltk that is known to compile on 10.3 with this 
>  patch?
>  best regards,
>  vincent
> 
> 
>  Alastair Davies wrote:
> 
> >vincent,
> >
> >My understanding is that at present TkAqua cannot draw all Unicode
> >characters, but that Benjamin Riefenstahl has developed a patch (see message
> >below) to enable it to do so.  
> >
> >I hope this helps,
> >Kind regards, Alastair
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Benjamin Riefenstahl
> >Sent: 18 March 2005 14:09
> >Subject: Re: [MACTCL] Unicode in Aqua Tk
> >
> >Hi Linus,
> >
> >"Linus Nyberg" writes:
> >  
> >
> >>I read something about ATSU not being easily pluggable into the Tk
> >>structure, but I just want to know what the current status is...
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Unicode doesn't work satifactorily with the QuickDraw API used in the
> >current Tk source.
> >
> >I wrote a patch for using ATSU instead, see
> ><http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12997&atid=312997&func=detail&aid=
> >638966>.
> >This implementation is slower than the QuickDraw based stuff in some
> >situations, so I am working on optimizations, before this can go into
> >CVS.  Unfortunately, optimizing and testing is going slow and I can
> >only devote limited time to it.
> >
> >benny
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: vincent rioux
> >Sent: 19 October 2005 12:24
> >
> >thank you for your reply.
> >well, i already tried to change of font, but still it won't take this index.
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >from Tkinter import *
> >import tkFont
> >root = Tk()
> >myFont = tkFont.Font(size=24, family='Junicode')
> >w = Label(root, text=u'\u0254', font=myFont)
> >w.pack()
> >root.mainloop()
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >you can find junicode on the web:
> >http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html
> >
> >for the code of the character I wanted to display : 
> >http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/docs/junicode_ipa.html
> >
> >by advance many thanks
> >vincent
> >
> >
> >Russell E. Owen wrote: 
> >In article <4354C5DE.5030003@[...].org>,
> > vincent rioux <vincent.rioux@[...].org> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >  
> >w = Label(root, text=u'\u0254')
> >...
> >This should display an 'open o' of the IPA.
> >It happens to work with python from FINK (hence using x11) but I just 
> >can't get it to work on pythonw2.4/tcl-tk acqua. It will only display an 
> >empty square....
> >    
> >
> >My guess is that the font you are using is missing the character in 
> >question. Try setting the font of the widget to something with a richer 
> >character set.
> >
> >-- Russell
> >
> >
> >
> >
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