[issue43647] Sudden crash displaying certain characters in tk widget

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Thank you for reporting. While I may have had tab not work after the dialog, I had never connected the two. Nor, AFAIK, was there an existing report. I verified, investigated more, and opened #43654. -- ___ Pytho

[issue43647] Sudden crash displaying certain characters in tk widget

Mikhail added the comment: Yes, this is exactly the same problem as `issue42225`. I suspected it was a Tkinter problem, and also thought that Python might be under the hood catching C method call errors. But since you know about this problem, and in more detail than I have written here, th

[issue43647] Sudden crash displaying certain characters in tk widget

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Closing as a duplicate. What's new here is that BMP chars can be affected also. I opened #43652 to upgrade Windows installer to 8.6.11 (though not needed for this) but I guess Linux users have to bug their distributor or learn to upgrade themselves. --

[issue43647] Sudden crash displaying certain characters in tk widget

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Looks like a duplicate of issue42225. It happens with colored fonts. In any case it is a Tk issue and it should be fixed in the latest Tk bugfix release (8.6.11). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue43647] Sudden crash displaying certain characters in tk widget

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is actually a tk and tkinter issue rather than IDLE issue as such. Python code can only catch Python exceptions, and I believe that the Xserver crash does not result in one. These crashes were reported on a different issue and the conclusion there is