Christian Heimes added the comment:
Excellent investigation!
Idle automatically picked Dejavu Sans Mono as default font. I have also several
fonts for e.g. unicode symbols and emojis installed. Noto Sans Mono CJK fonts
are working fine, too. However when I select the Noto Emoji font in the f
Mikhail added the comment:
I checked the behavior, and found out that it depends on the font. I have "Noto
Sans Mono", and if I enter, for example, '\u2709', IDLE crashes. But if I put
another font, for example 'Dejavu Mono', just a blank line is displayed. Also,
if I output the characters t
Christian Heimes added the comment:
I cannot reproduce the issue on Fedora 33 with KDE 5 and libX11-1.6.12:
Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 20 2021, 00:00:00)
[GCC 10.2.1 20201125 (Red Hat 10.2.1-9)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> '\u2705'
'✅'
New submission from Mikhail :
Hi! I'm not sure if it's an IDLE, library, Xserver or font error, but either
way, IDLE is behaving incorrectly. I have installed 3.8 and 3.9 versions, and
on both it works, I do not know about the others, but I suspect that on the
others, this error also occurs.
