From fb9a1a8f36da7ab6738de23a10070b5d64237f6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:36:46 +0100
Subject: Issue #12342: Improve _tkinter error message on unencodable character

---
 Modules/_tkinter.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Modules')

diff --git a/Modules/_tkinter.c b/Modules/_tkinter.c
index 672837f2b5..3608e2d993 100644
--- 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,
-                                "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;
             }
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