[3.6] bpo-13802: Use non-Latin characters in IDLE's Font settings sample. (GH-3960) (#4027)

Even if one selects a font that defines a limited subset of the unicode
Basic Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a
character. The expanded example give users of non-Latin characters
a better idea of what they might see in the IDLE shell and editors.

To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are
re-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
(cherry picked from commit e2e4227)

Author: miss-islington

Lib/idlelib/configdialog.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from tkinter import (Toplevel, Listbox, Text, Scale, Canvas,
                      StringVar, BooleanVar, IntVar, TRUE, FALSE,
                      TOP, BOTTOM, RIGHT, LEFT, SOLID, GROOVE, NORMAL, DISABLED,
-                     NONE, BOTH, X, Y, W, E, EW, NS, NSEW, NW,
+                     NONE, BOTH, X, Y, W, E, EW, NS, NSEW, NW, CENTER,
                      HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, ANCHOR, ACTIVE, END)
 from tkinter.ttk import (Button, Checkbutton, Entry, Frame, Label, LabelFrame,
                          OptionMenu, Notebook, Radiobutton, Scrollbar, Style)
@@ -479,8 +479,8 @@ def create_page_font_tab(self):
                     font_size_title: Label
                     (*)sizelist: DynOptionMenu - font_size
                     (*)bold_toggle: Checkbutton - font_bold
-                frame_font_sample: Frame
-                    (*)font_sample: Label
+            frame_sample: LabelFrame
+                (*)font_sample: Label
             frame_indent: LabelFrame
                     indent_title: Label
                     (*)indent_scale: Scale - space_num
@@ -490,18 +490,19 @@ def create_page_font_tab(self):
         self.font_bold = tracers.add(BooleanVar(self), self.var_changed_font)
         self.space_num = tracers.add(IntVar(self), ('main', 'Indent', 'num-spaces'))
 
-        # Create widgets:
-        # body and body section frames.
+        # Define frames and widgets.
         frame_font = LabelFrame(
-                self, borderwidth=2, relief=GROOVE, text=' Base Editor Font ')
+                self, borderwidth=2, relief=GROOVE, text=' Shell/Editor Font ')
+        frame_sample = LabelFrame(
+                self, borderwidth=2, relief=GROOVE, text=' Font Sample ')
         frame_indent = LabelFrame(
                 self, borderwidth=2, relief=GROOVE, text=' Indentation Width ')
         # frame_font.
         frame_font_name = Frame(frame_font)
         frame_font_param = Frame(frame_font)
         font_name_title = Label(
                 frame_font_name, justify=LEFT, text='Font Face :')
-        self.fontlist = Listbox(frame_font_name, height=5,
+        self.fontlist = Listbox(frame_font_name, height=15,
                                 takefocus=True, exportselection=FALSE)
         self.fontlist.bind('<ButtonRelease-1>', self.on_fontlist_select)
         self.fontlist.bind('<KeyRelease-Up>', self.on_fontlist_select)
@@ -514,11 +515,37 @@ def create_page_font_tab(self):
         self.bold_toggle = Checkbutton(
                 frame_font_param, variable=self.font_bold,
                 onvalue=1, offvalue=0, text='Bold')
-        frame_font_sample = Frame(frame_font, relief=SOLID, borderwidth=1)
+        # frame_sample.
+        sample = (
+            '<ASCII/Latin1>\n'
+            'AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJj\n1234567890#:+=(){}[]\n'
+            '\u00a2\u00a3\u00a5\u00a7\u00a9\u00ab\u00ae\u00b6\u00bd\u011e'
+            '\u00c0\u00c1\u00c2\u00c3\u00c4\u00c5\u00c7\u00d0\u00d8\u00df\n'
+            '\n<IPA,Greek,Cyrillic>\n'
+            '\u0250\u0255\u0258\u025e\u025f\u0264\u026b\u026e\u0270\u0277'
+            '\u027b\u0281\u0283\u0286\u028e\u029e\u02a2\u02ab\u02ad\u02af\n'
+            '\u0391\u03b1\u0392\u03b2\u0393\u03b3\u0394\u03b4\u0395\u03b5'
+            '\u0396\u03b6\u0397\u03b7\u0398\u03b8\u0399\u03b9\u039a\u03ba\n'
+            '\u0411\u0431\u0414\u0434\u0416\u0436\u041f\u043f\u0424\u0444'
+            '\u0427\u0447\u042a\u044a\u042d\u044d\u0460\u0464\u046c\u04dc\n'
+            '\n<Hebrew, Arabic>\n'
+            '\u05d0\u05d1\u05d2\u05d3\u05d4\u05d5\u05d6\u05d7\u05d8\u05d9'
+            '\u05da\u05db\u05dc\u05dd\u05de\u05df\u05e0\u05e1\u05e2\u05e3\n'
+            '\u0627\u0628\u062c\u062f\u0647\u0648\u0632\u062d\u0637\u064a'
+            '\u0660\u0661\u0662\u0663\u0664\u0665\u0666\u0667\u0668\u0669\n'
+            '\n<Devanagari, Tamil>\n'
+            '\u0966\u0967\u0968\u0969\u096a\u096b\u096c\u096d\u096e\u096f'
+            '\u0905\u0906\u0907\u0908\u0909\u090a\u090f\u0910\u0913\u0914\n'
+            '\u0be6\u0be7\u0be8\u0be9\u0bea\u0beb\u0bec\u0bed\u0bee\u0bef'
+            '\u0b85\u0b87\u0b89\u0b8e\n'
+            '\n<East Asian>\n'
+            '\u3007\u4e00\u4e8c\u4e09\u56db\u4e94\u516d\u4e03\u516b\u4e5d\n'
+            '\u6c49\u5b57\u6f22\u5b57\u4eba\u6728\u706b\u571f\u91d1\u6c34\n'
+            '\uac00\ub0d0\ub354\ub824\ubaa8\ubd64\uc218\uc720\uc988\uce58\n'
+            '\u3042\u3044\u3046\u3048\u304a\u30a2\u30a4\u30a6\u30a8\u30aa\n'
+            )
         temp_font = tkFont.Font(self, ('courier', 10, 'normal'))
-        self.font_sample = Label(
-                frame_font_sample, justify=LEFT, font=temp_font,
-                text='AaBbCcDdEe\nFfGgHhIiJj\n1234567890\n#:+=(){}[]')
+        self.font_sample = Label(frame_sample, text=sample, font=temp_font)
         # frame_indent.
         indent_title = Label(
                 frame_indent, justify=LEFT,
@@ -527,10 +554,12 @@ def create_page_font_tab(self):
                 frame_indent, variable=self.space_num,
                 orient='horizontal', tickinterval=2, from_=2, to=16)
 
-        # Pack widgets:
-        # body.
-        frame_font.pack(side=LEFT, padx=5, pady=5, expand=TRUE, fill=BOTH)
-        frame_indent.pack(side=LEFT, padx=5, pady=5, fill=Y)
+        # Grid and pack widgets:
+        self.columnconfigure(1, weight=1)
+        frame_font.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=5, pady=5)
+        frame_sample.grid(row=0, column=1, rowspan=2, padx=5, pady=5,
+                          sticky='nsew')
+        frame_indent.grid(row=1, column=0, padx=5, pady=5, sticky='ew')
         # frame_font.
         frame_font_name.pack(side=TOP, padx=5, pady=5, fill=X)
         frame_font_param.pack(side=TOP, padx=5, pady=5, fill=X)
@@ -540,10 +569,9 @@ def create_page_font_tab(self):
         font_size_title.pack(side=LEFT, anchor=W)
         self.sizelist.pack(side=LEFT, anchor=W)
         self.bold_toggle.pack(side=LEFT, anchor=W, padx=20)
-        frame_font_sample.pack(side=TOP, padx=5, pady=5, expand=TRUE, fill=BOTH)
+        # frame_sample.
         self.font_sample.pack(expand=TRUE, fill=BOTH)
         # frame_indent.
-        frame_indent.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)
         indent_title.pack(side=TOP, anchor=W, padx=5)
         self.indent_scale.pack(side=TOP, padx=5, fill=X)
 
@@ -2108,10 +2136,24 @@ def detach(self):
 dialog that are different from IDLE's default are saved in
 a .idlerc directory in your home directory. Except as noted,
 these changes apply to all versions of IDLE installed on this
-machine. Some do not take affect until IDLE is restarted.
-[Cancel] only cancels changes made since the last save.
+machine. [Cancel] only cancels changes made since the last save.
 '''
 help_pages = {
+    'Fonts/Tabs':'''
+Font sample: This shows what a selection of Basic Multilingual Plane
+unicode characters look like for the current font selection.  If the
+selected font does not define a character, Tk attempts to find another
+font that does.  Substitute glyphs depend on what is available on a
+particular system and will not necessarily have the same size as the
+font selected.  Line contains 20 characters up to Devanagari, 14 for
+Tamil, and 10 for East Asia.
+
+Hebrew and Arabic letters should display right to left, starting with
+alef, \u05d0 and \u0627.  Arabic digits display left to right.  The
+Devanagari and Tamil lines start with digits.  The East Asian lines
+are Chinese digits, Chinese Hanzi, Korean Hangul, and Japanese
+Hiragana and Katakana.
+''',
     'Highlights': '''
 Highlighting:
 The IDLE Dark color theme is new in October 2015.  It can only

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2017-10-12-00-51-29.bpo-13802.VwjZRD.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Use non-Latin characters in the IDLE's Font settings sample.
+
+Even if one selects a font that defines a limited subset of the unicode
+
+Basic Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a
+
+character.  The expanded example give users of non-Latin characters
+
+a better idea of what they might see in IDLE's shell and editors.
+
+
+
+To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are
+
+re-arranged.  The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.