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> good Unicode support from the very beginning

I once started a Chinese character flash card program in Python on Windows.

The yak shaving was unbelievable. I never got a working version, but I learned a lot about code pages, and why "building a console from scratch" is not actually the right answer to "I want to be able to test a toy program I'm making before it's finished."



Tkinter would have given you a basic Unicode capable GUI without the hassles of the console.


Hmm, going back through my old .py files, I ultimately did start using Tkinter... and for some reason thought yaml was really important...

Still, would have been nice to have a program that essentially took in and put out text without learning everything about GUI elements.

I'd never written anything with a GUI before, and "I'd like to see unicode" is a really weird place to dive in.




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