[issue30209] some UTF8 symbols

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett added the comment:

IDLE uses tkinter, which wraps tcl/tk. Versions up to tcl/tk 8.6 can't handle 'astral' codepoints.

See also:

Issue #30019: IDLE freezes when opening a file with astral characters

Issue #21084: IDLE can't deal with characters above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF)

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nosy: +mrabarnett

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