Display special caracters in a text in a widget

[xa1666]

Hi,
I have the following problem : I would like to display a special symbol in a text widget in TK.
The symbol is "°" (the celcius degree symbol on a keyboard).

If I use it from my keyboard then on different platforms it can appears as "-" or "^"... I think that this symbol is not
a standard ASCII symbol.

That's why it fails to be well displayed on different platforms.

Does anyone knows how to display that kind of caracter?

Thanks

 

[Bong]

play around with format <integer> [red]%c[/red]

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Bob Rashkin

 

[Bong]

sorry. That should be:
format [red]%c[/red] <integer>

_________________
Bob Rashkin

 

[xa1666]

Hi thank you for responding. I think I should have put the
TCL/TK code that gives the trouble :
In this checkbutton the variable "$gdyDictionary(rotateFootFlag)" equals to "°" end is sometimes badly displayed:

checkbutton $window.rotateFoot -text
"$gdyDictionary(rotateFootFlag)" \
-variable gdyParameters(rotateFootFlag) \
-onvalue yes\
-offvalue no

Soo I don't see where I can use format there...

Thanks in advance

 

[Bong]

How is the value set in the first place?

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Bob Rashkin

 

[xa1666]

Hi
it is set in an array

array set gdyDictionary {
...
rotateFootFlag {°}
...
}

 

[Bong]

try:

array set gdyDictionary {
...
    rotateFootFlag {[format %c 176]}
...
}

_________________
Bob Rashkin

 

[xa1666]

Hi,

no when I do that I got the text "[format %c 176]" in the widget

 

[Bong]

OK. Without the {curly braces}:

array set gdyDictionary {
...
    rotateFootFlag [format %c 176]
...
}

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Bob Rashkin