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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: 0.425s | source
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sebtron ◴[24 Jun 25 06:52 UTC] No.44363495[source]▶
Am I the only one who actually dislikes the recent trend of putting emojis everywhere in CLI tools? I am ok with red and yellow text for errors and warning, and I can stand green for success (though I find it useless), but emoji's are just distracting.
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bigstrat2003 ◴[24 Jun 25 07:30 UTC] No.44363709[source]▶
Emojis do not belong in the CLI, ever. Hell, I personally think they shouldn't be in Unicode at all (as they are not text), but that ship has long since sailed unfortunately.
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1. juliangmp ◴[24 Jun 25 08:12 UTC] No.44363912[source]▶
I'm fine with them used sparingly in documentation, but in actual terminal output they mostly don't get rendered properly so I'd stick to nerd fonts if I want "icons" of any kind.