Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
a string argument contains non-BMP character.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 82078c9..5013392 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
+ a string argument contains non-BMP character.
+
- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
diff --git a/Modules/_tkinter.c b/Modules/_tkinter.c
index 70f4703..d18c7f0 100644
--- a/Modules/_tkinter.c
+++ b/Modules/_tkinter.c
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@
#if TCL_UTF_MAX == 3
if (ch >= 0x10000) {
/* Tcl doesn't do UTF-16, yet. */
- PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
+ PyErr_Format(Tkinter_TclError,
"character U+%x is above the range "
"(U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed by Tcl",
ch);