Issue #12342: Improve _tkinter error message on unencodable character

7ab4192e · Victor Stinner · b3bc7e76 · 7ab4192e
Commit 7ab4192e authored Nov 04, 2011 by Victor Stinner
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Modules/_tkinter.c Modules/_tkinter.c +4 -2

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