Re: Decoding bytes to text strings in Python 2

Rayner Lucas <usenet202101@magic-cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE> wrote or quoted:

What's Python 2 doing here? sys.getdefaultencoding() returns 'ascii',
but it's clearly not attempting to display the bytes as ASCII (or
cp1252, or ISO-8859-1). How is it deciding on some sort of almost-but-
not-quite UTF-8 decoding?

  I didn't really do a super thorough deep dive on this,
  but I'm just giving the initial impression without
  actually being familiar with Tkinter under Python 2,
  so I might be wrong!

  The Text widget typically expects text in Tcl encoding,
  which is usually UTF-8.

  This is independent of the result returned by sys.get-
  defaultencoding()!

  If a UTF-8 string is inserted directly as a bytes object,
  its code points will be displayed correctly by the Text
  widget as long as they are in the BMP (Basic Multilingual
  Plane), as you already found out yourself.