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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: 0.202s | source
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p4cmanus3r ◴[24 Jun 25 07:10 UTC] No.44363591[source]▶
Back in my day... They didn't have emojis in terminals.
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gylterud ◴[24 Jun 25 08:50 UTC] No.44364114[source]▶
U+263A entered Unicode in 1993, afaik. Plan9 had utf8 support in the terminal back then!
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1. Findecanor ◴[24 Jun 25 09:32 UTC] No.44364327[source]▶
Single code point, monochrome and single space. So it didn't need to be handled differently than any other non-ASCII character.

BTW, it is emitted with the sequence `Compose` `:` `)` (if you have Compose-key support installed+enabled)