Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
In IDLE on Windows the following prints the first 3 astral planes in a couple
of minutes.
for i in range(0x10000, 0x40000, 32):
chars = ''.join(chr(i+j) for j in range(32))
print(hex(i), chars)
Perhaps half of the assigned chars in the first plane are printed instead of
being replaced with a narrow box. This includes emoticons as foreground color
outlines on background color. Maybe all of the second plane of extended CJK
chars are printed. The third plane is unassigned and prints as unassigned
boxes (with an X).
Fixing OS graphics or tk is out of scope for us. Preventing hangs or crashes
when using tkinter is. On Mac, refusing to insert any astral char into a tk
widget might be the best solution. Serhiy, could that be done in
tkinter/_tkinter?
On Linux, the situation appears to be more complex. The SO questioner
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64615570/why-do-some-emoticons-cause-python-idle-to-crash-on-ubuntu
could print the two multicolor 'grinning face with smiling eyes' 😄, which fails
for Serhiy, but not the simpler thumbsup 👍. I don't know if we can detect
fonts that cause crashes.
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