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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

(dgl.cx)
178 points dgl | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 02:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.526s | source
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mmastrac ◴[24 Jun 25 04:28 UTC] No.44362863[source]▶
I'd be happy if we could get terminals to agree on how wide the warning triangle emoji renders. The emoji are certainly useful for scripts, but often widths are such a crapshoot. I cannot add width detection to every bash script I write for every emoji I want to use.

If only there was a standards body that could perhaps spec how these work in terminals.

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charcircuit ◴[24 Jun 25 04:43 UTC] No.44362918[source]▶
You could ship a terminal with your script. This is how apps like Slack deal with inconsistent handling of standardized content by shipping an embedded chromium.
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liamkearney ◴[24 Jun 25 05:37 UTC] No.44363122[source]▶
What doesn’t justify shipping chromium these days?
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1. dgl ◴[24 Jun 25 05:56 UTC] No.44363210[source]▶
The ChromeOS terminal (hterm[1]) is actually a pretty good terminal, so even a terminal might justify a browser context. Blink[2] on iOS for example uses it.

[1]: https://hterm.org/ (although in the way they do Google seems to have lost interest in updating that site and the GitHub repo, there's still fixes in the upstream Chromium repo)

[2]: https://blink.sh

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2. notpushkin ◴[24 Jun 25 06:18 UTC] No.44363320[source]▶
How does it compare to https://xtermjs.org/?