Re: Bug report: gitk unable to handle Unicode properly

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Apr 17, 2021, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <YHotWPe8noZqd9zt@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPx1GvetNRBovJMF8tkk9obuSHjC=w9JqryrSTeA0rVF35Q5+A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2021-04-17 at 00:01:45, Chris Torek wrote:

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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.

It seems from the linked bug report that this is fixed in Tk 8.6.11, which I'm using, but not in Tk 8.6.10, which is available in Fedora 33.

So it sounds like this should probably be filed as a bug with Fedora. I don't know what their policy on backports is like, but they might be willing to backport a fix to Fedora 33.

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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US