On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 20:53, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 4/9/2012 7:53 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 18:41, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >>> >>> In particular, it should include a recent fix so that French keyboards >>> work >>> with tk/tkinter and hence Idle better than now. There has been more than >>> one >>> complaint about this. >> >> >> Do you know when this was fixed or have any information about it? Tcl >> and Tk 8.5.11 were released Nov 4, 2011. If it was fixed after that I >> can look into patching our copy of whatever projects are affected. > > > The patch is specifically for tkMacOS, 29/1/12 > http://core.tcl.tk/tk/info/9844fe10b9 > > so it apparently does not affect Windows or what we include with Windows > build. But it was a show stopper for some French Mac users, including one > professor who wanted to use Python for an undergraduate course. > > On Mar 4, Ned Daily wrote on idle-sig list: > > Update: The fix has now been released in the latest ActiveState Tcl 8.5 > for Mac OS X release (8.5.11.1) available here: > > http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads > > It appears to fix the French keyboard tilde problem and other similar > problems with composite characters, like Option-U + vowel to form > "umlauted" vowels in the U.S. input method. Many thanks to Adrian > Robert, Kevin Walzer, and the ActiveState team for addressing this nasty > problem. > > If you install ActiveState Tcl 8.5.x, it will automatically be used by > the python.org 2.7.x, 3.2.x, and 3.3.x 64-bit/32-bit Pythons for OS X > 10.6 and 10.7. It will *not* be used by the Apple-supplied system > Pythons or by 32-bit-only python.org Pythons. More details here: > > http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ > === > > So the latest A.S. Windows release should be fine as the base for our > Windows release. > > Terry
The Windows build works with 8.5.11 so I imagine we would just use that. If anyone wants to pull it all out and make it use some third-party installer that's up to them. I can try applying the relevant patches to the 8.5.11 we have, but I don't really have the time or knowledge to test them. I don't know anything about tcl/tk and don't know a whole lot about Macs. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
