是否可以使用tkinter将中文文本输入到tk Text和Entry小部件中？

Question

I am working on a few GUI apps with tkinter that manipulate Chinese text inputted by the user. I have no problem displaying Chinese text in the app, nor do I have any problem manipulating that text when it is pasted into the app, but when I try to use a Chinese input method to type Chinese text into, eg, Text or Entry widgets, it shows up as Latin characters instead. It seems like there should be a trivial solution to this problem (or maybe it just doesn't work), but I have spent a lot of time searching (in English and Chinese) for an answer, without finding anything definitive. What is going wrong here?

Answer 1

I encountered this problem on Mac OS X 10.10 with Python 2.7.12 and Tcl/Tk 8.5.9.

And I fixed it by upgrading Tcl/Tk to 8.6.6 (someone stated that 8.5.18 may fix it also). It could be done by two ways:

1. If you use Homebrew to installed Python, use it to install Python again: " brew install python --with-tcl-tk " (may be you need to uninstall it first).
2. Or you may download the Python installation package from: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads .

BTW, you are not able to input Chinese in the entry widget if you run the Python script from a "virtualenv" even this environment use the same verion of Python and Tcl/Tk.