commit 7ab4192e82154e6d61b635f493ed6c36231614ad
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Fri Nov 04 00:36:46 2011 +0100
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Fri Nov 04 00:36:46 2011 +0100
tree e92a0a92633e04faec0b325730ceef1e48c4a38b
parent b3bc7e764db4327953aaaf1316e0edc0ff6b16fb

Issue #12342: Improve _tkinter error message on unencodable character

Modules/_tkinter.c

diff --git a/Modules/_tkinter.c b/Modules/_tkinter.c
index 672837f..3608e2d 100644
--- a/Modules/_tkinter.c
+++ b/Modules/_tkinter.c
@@ -993,8 +993,10 @@
         for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
             if (inbuf[i] >= 0x10000) {
                 /* Tcl doesn't do UTF-16, yet. */
-                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
-                                "unsupported character");
+                PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
+                             "character U+%x is above the range "
+                             "(U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed by Tcl",
+                             inbuf[i]);
                 ckfree(FREECAST outbuf);
                 return NULL;
             }