[issue44217] [IDLE] Weird behaviour in IDLE while dealing with non-ASCII characters

Erlend E. Aasland added the comment: > The smiley emoji  is U+1F600 which is outside of the Unicode Basic > Multilingual Plane (BMP). Correct, and this is documented: https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html#user-output-in-shell Suggesting to close this as not-a-bug. -- nosy:

[issue44217] [IDLE] Weird behaviour in IDLE while dealing with non-ASCII characters

Shreyan Avigyan added the comment: It's not a Python problem at all. This was occurring in IDLE only. And yeah I know how it print the character. It's just that I was confused that why IDLE is behaving like that. I am happy to learn that it has a fix coming soon. --

[issue44217] [IDLE] Weird behaviour in IDLE while dealing with non-ASCII characters

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: The smiley emoji  is U+1F600 which is outside of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). IDLE's underlying graphical toolkit, Tcl/Tk, has problems with Unicode characters outside of the BMP, so this may not be fixable by us. If all you want is to

[issue44217] [IDLE] Weird behaviour in IDLE while dealing with non-ASCII characters

Change by Shreyan Avigyan : -- versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue44217] [IDLE] Weird behaviour in IDLE while dealing with non-ASCII characters

New submission from Shreyan Avigyan : In IDLE, suppose I want to print . I can write it like, print(b'\xf0\x9f\x98\x80'.decode()). I can't print it in console so I tried it in IDLE. It worked. Hurray! Hold on though. Now I thought how can I print  directly. So I used the command