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On 2015-12-04, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> Tk widgets, and hence IDLE windows, will print any character from \u0000 
> to \uffff without raising, even if the result is blank or ￿.  Higher 
> codepoints fail, but allowing the entire BMP is better than any Windows 
> codepage.

Well, any bar 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, and 54936.