[issue12342] characters with ord above 65535 fail to display in IDLE

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

In responding to #14200, it occurred to me that better than an exception would be doing what the interpreter does in Command Prompt window, which is expand high chars to '\U0001xxxx' escaped form.

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