Display emoji in tkinter

Asked Apr 22 '19 at 09:32

Active Nov 30 '20 at 10:10

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I'm working in Ubuntu with python 3.x, I'm trying to display some emojis in tkinter. In windows I solved this problem by displaying the equivalent surrogate pair Python: Find equivalent surrogate pair from non-BMP unicode char, but in Ubuntu when I try to do this with some emojis the program crashes giving this error,

CODE:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
canvas = tk.Canvas(root)
canvas.pack()
x, y= 0, 0
for _ in range(100):
    canvas.create_text(x, y, text='\ud83d\ude4f', anchor=tk.NW)
    y += 10


root.mainloop()

ERROR:

X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  139 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
  Serial number of failed request:  199
  Current serial number in output stream:  199

Actually I don't think that's a python problem, maybe it is an OS problem. I haven't found so much searching for a solution.

edited Nov 30 '20 at 10:10

j_4321

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asked Apr 22 '19 at 09:32

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Using surrogates is precisely the wrong thing to do here. (It's probably necessary on Windows but it's still wacky.) – tripleee Apr 22 '19 at 10:36
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and what is the correct thing to do here? – Mat.C Apr 22 '19 at 10:52
Use the proper single Unicode code point `\U0001F64F` () – tripleee Apr 22 '19 at 11:29
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tkinter doesn't support emojis or other unicode characters, the only way for display emojis is by the equivalent surrogate pair, i yet tried as that – Mat.C Apr 22 '19 at 18:24
Hmmm, does the font you use support this glyph? – tripleee Apr 22 '19 at 18:33
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Yes, it supports them – Mat.C Apr 22 '19 at 18:54
Try looking at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52228940/how-can-i-enable-support-for-emoji-in-tkinter-applications – Ben the Coder Jun 10 '23 at 14:38

Display emoji in tkinter

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