Chrome driver crashes on unsupported non-bmp characters. How to bypass this

Question

I am using selenium chrome driver to do some automation. Sometimes I encounter different types of unicode and non-bmp characters and it crashes my chrome. I was just wondering if there is a way to deal with this? Like removing them or doing something so my chrome driver doesn't crash.

I am using chrome driver 2.45.615291

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: ChromeDriver only supports characters in the BMP

Answer 1

Chrome Driver won't support characters with a Unicode after FFFF and in a future chrome releases this feature will be considered to add it.

This is a chrome driver bug, please refer: Relevant chromedriver bug report

You can use Firefox, IE or Edge to avoid this issue because these browser driver will support this feature.