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<node id="1010171" title="Re: status of perl/tk?" created="2012-12-24 03:54:21" updated="2012-12-24 03:54:21">
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&lt;p&gt;I am a pretty active user of [mod://Tk|perl/Tk] and most of my desktop applications that need some kind of GUI are written in it. The huge advantage of [mod://Tk] over the alternatives like [mod://Wx] or [mod://Gtk2] is that [mod://Tk] works out out of the box on almost any OS, including the OS's I have work on like HP-UX and AIX. I never got [mod://Wx] to work on 64bit versions of HP-UX and AIX and I don't bother anymore as [mod://Tk] works painlessly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[mod://Tk] is currently maintained by [https://metacpan.org/author/SREZIC|Slaven Rezi&amp;#263;] (who is also listed as current maintainer in [https://metacpan.org/module/SREZIC/Tk-804.030/pod/overview.pod|meta::cpan]), and the [https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk|github repository] is publicly available, so you can checkout activity yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In case of your statement that [mod://Tk] doesn't support Unicode, you should pass a lot more information than what you did, as the support not only depends on the version of [mod://Tk], but also, and maybe only, on the version of perl itself. I'd argue that the absolute minimum version of perl to deal with Unicode in a reasonable reliable way is 5.8.7, but I'd advice 5.14.2 or 5.16.2 to make sure all (Unicode-related) bugs you encounter are addressed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have stated no information about what OS you use, what version of the OS, what version of perl (it can also be a broken vendor relase) and what version of [mod://Tk]. Nor did you come up with an example that we could check.&lt;/p&gt;
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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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