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Re: Bug report: gitk unable to handle Unicode properly

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Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2021, 00:01 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 4:21 PM brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

> On 2021-04-16 at 16:21:21, Lars Kiesow wrote:
> > - Launch gitk
> >     - Crash (see below)
> I don't see a crash.
I think this is a Tk/X11 interaction bug.
See, e.g., https://bugs.python.org/issue42225 (which has the same symptoms).

I'm no tcl/tk expert, but I vaguely remember other similar bug reports. They all turned out to need a tk-side fix.

Chris
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