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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: 0.21s | 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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kergonath ◴[24 Jun 25 06:22 UTC] No.44363336[source]▶
Emoji are good to highlight information. A red cross stands out in a list of green ticks much better than a [failed] among the [passed].
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gapan ◴[24 Jun 25 06:40 UTC] No.44363431[source]▶
> Emoji are good to highlight information. A red cross stands out in a list of green ticks much better than a [failed] among the [passed].

Rendering [failed] in red and [passed] in green would achieve the same. It's not emoji vs text. It's color vs no color.

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1. noisy_boy ◴[28 Jun 25 08:00 UTC] No.44402995[source]▶
> Rendering [failed] in red and [passed] in green would achieve the same. It's not emoji vs text. It's color vs no color.

Thats only true for the terminal. When the same output is saved to a file or viewed via a non-terminal interface, the colors won't always be retained but the text/icons will be. E.g. in Jenkins console logs, you need to enable ASCII coloring explicitly to be able to see colored text.