(Merge 3.2) Issue #12342: Improve _tkinter error message on unencodable character

2011-11-04 00:43:35 +01:00 · 2011-11-04 00:43:35 +01:00 · 6777e6f9b1
parent fcd9653667 7ab4192e82
commit 6777e6f9b1
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/Modules/_tkinter.c
+++ b/Modules/_tkinter.c
@ -990,8 +990,10 @@ AsObj(PyObject *value)
 #if TCL_UTF_MAX == 3
            if (ch >= 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;
 #endif