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When you print an unprintable character, IDLE raises an error.
>>> print(chr(500304)) # print an unprintable character
The error is only visible when you run the code from a commmand-line.
When you run python from the command-line and execute the code it shows
the unprintable character symbol (looks like []).

Here's the Error message.
*** Internal Error: rpc.py:SocketIO.localcall()
 Object: stdout 
 Method: <bound method PseudoFile.write of <idlelib.PyShell.PseudoFile object at 0x2675550>> 
 Args: ('\U0007a250',)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/rpc.py", line 188, in localcall
 ret = method(*args, **kwargs)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1220, in write
 self.shell.write(s, self.tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1202, in write
 OutputWindow.write(self, s, tags, "iomark")
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/OutputWindow.py", line 40, in write
 self.text.insert(mark, s, tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/Percolator.py", line 25, in insert
 self.top.insert(index, chars, tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/ColorDelegator.py", line 79, in insert
 self.delegate.insert(index, chars, tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 312, in insert
 UndoDelegator.insert(self, index, chars, tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 81, in insert
 self.addcmd(InsertCommand(index, chars, tags))
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 116, in addcmd
 cmd.do(self.delegate)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 219, in do
 text.insert(self.index1, self.chars, self.tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/ColorDelegator.py", line 79, in insert
 self.delegate.insert(index, chars, tags)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/WidgetRedirector.py", line 104, in __call__
 return self.tk_call(self.orig_and_operation + args)
ValueError: unsupported character

My OS is Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Running uname -a gives "Linux ramcomputer 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

Both print(chr(500304)) and print('\U0007a250') seem to work and print two empty boxes on IDLE with Python 3.2/WinXP.
Is that error displayed in the IDLE window or does IDLE crash and you see the error somewhere else?

The error is visible from the command-line.

With a current 3.3 build (i.e. "wide" build) on OS X, I can reproduce this. It causes an exception on the execution of that command in the IDLE shell but it doesn't crash IDLE. Not surprisingly, it doesn't seem to be reproducible with 3.2 "narrow" builds.

I can reproduce the problem with Ubuntu 11.04 with Python 3.2. The WidgetRedirector calls tk_call with a tuple containing unencoded Unicode strings. 
Attached is a patch to encode all arguments if the argument has the "encode" attribute. This seems to fix the problem, but can someone who knows more about Python and Tk's Unicode handling take a look?

Sorry, I should have noticed earlier that this is a duplicate of Issue12342. The problem is simply that Tcl/Tk does not currently support the display of Unicode code points outside of the BMP. The question then is what IDLE to do when asked to display such characters. The current behavior of letting tkinter detect the unsupported code point and bubbling up a somewhat unhelpful exception message is not the most user-friendly response. Let's continue any discussion of this over on the earlier issue.