Re: tcl and xcin input problem

[Alex Lau ??? <alexlau@thizgroup.com>]

Petr Simon wrote:

> Hi,
> this problem is for big5 too, but I guess almost everyone who reads big5 
> reads gb too and vise versa.
> The problem: I'd like to use Leo 
> (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html) for my MA thesis in 
> chinese linguistics, which means that I have to input a lot of stuff 
> both in chinese and in my native language which has few diacritics. Leo 
> is written in Python and uses Tcl/Tk for it's GUI. I wrote to the author 
> and it really seems that  the problem is in Tcl/Tk, 'cause I have 
> another quite similar program in Python which is qt GUIed and it works 
> great with anything. Well Python handles unicode without a problem.
> Basically I can paste into it (fonts are quite bad), but I can't 
> directly type in.
> Any experience, help, pointers ?
> Thanks fo help
> Petr
> P.S. Thanks to Andre for being always very helpful help ;-)
>
>  
what other program you are talking about?
It Tcl/TK didn't convert encoding back to UTF it may be a parblem.
I don't know what kind of function you need for your thesis..
but personally if you want to use UTF, java app will be the best
choose from my experience.
Alex