[pygtk] PyGtk and Unicode support

[Tessa Lau]

> i'm guessing here, but you probably need to convert it into 8859-1
> first?

Doubtful; that would lose information if I wanted to display characters not
in ISO-8859-1.  With Tkinter, I can create a Unicode string object from the
Python side and pass it directly to the Text widget and have it display
properly.  For example:

	from Tkinter import *
	t = Text()
	# Insert a Greek alpha character
	s = u'\u03b1'
	t.insert('end', s)

But if I try similar code with a GtkText widget, I see a plusminus
character, indicating that the GtkText doesn't understand the Unicode
string.

I heard from another source that the upcoming Gtk 1.4 has Unicode support,
so I'll stop looking for it in the current version.

Tessa Lau
tlau@cs.washington.edu