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I have non-BMP characters appearing frequently in the text I'm trying to print, which is causing many errors like this in my IDLE window:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'UCS-2' codec can't encode characters in position 18-18: Non-BMP character not supported in Tk

I would like to parse the text before printing it, find these characters, and replace them with \uFFFD (�) so that the python program doesn't crash, and also returns something so I, the user, can see that a non-BMP character was there.

Andrea Corbellini
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Jake Hillion
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    What Python version are you using? How are you decoding your string? Are you explicitly calling `decode()` or something else? Did you take a look at the [codecs error handlers](https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#error-handlers)? – Andrea Corbellini Jan 25 '16 at 17:49
  • @glibdud pretty sure that's it, I didn't see that, thanks for letting me know :) when my code runs across the issue again, if it works, I'll mark it as solved. – Jake Hillion Jan 25 '16 at 19:51

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