WPF apps crash if they display text with too many combining marks
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Description
* .NET Core Version: 3.0.100-preview-010024
* Windows version: (`winver`) win 10
* Does the bug reproduce also in WPF for .NET Framework 4.8?: yes
**Problem description:**
If there are too many combining marks or other special chars on one line and you try to show this text in a WPF textbox or WPF text editor, the application crashes.
**Actual behavior:**
Crash
**Expected behavior:**
The extra special chars are either ignored or a .NET exception is thrown.
**Minimal repro:**
Paste this text in a WPF textbox or a WPF text editor (it's `new string ('\u0483', 550)`)
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Here's code that generates it, don't try to display it in the VS C# REPL, it will crash VS:
```C#
File.WriteAllLines(@"c:\some\dir\a.txt", new[] {new string ('\u0483', 550) })
```
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