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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

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178 points dgl | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 02:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.338s | 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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1. twic ◴[24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC] No.44369636[source]▶
Until then, as it happens, an old colleague of mine is working on a JS library to paper over the cracks:

https://github.com/davidje13/tty-typesetter

I haven't used it in anger so can't vouch for it!