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mmastrac ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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1. kergonath ◴[] No.44363344[source]
Yeah. Please don’t do that.