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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

(dgl.cx)
178 points dgl | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 02:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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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a5c11 ◴[24 Jun 25 05:56 UTC] No.44363211[source]▶
Or you could just rely on the ordinary, fixed-width font available in every terminal? I mean, what do you need emojis for in a bash script?
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1. warkdarrior ◴[24 Jun 25 06:00 UTC] No.44363238[source]▶
And, frankly, why even bother with lower-case characters? Upper case is plenty good -- it was good enough for the VT05, it should be good enough for your laptop.