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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 12:21:12 JST Rich Felker

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   • ShadSterling

   @ShadSterling @r This happens when different components of the stack (application, real terminal, tmux/screen) disagree on the width-in-charcells of a character.

   In principle is *does* work, with some caveats (emoji that are made with joiners will necessarily take up a lot more logical space as a consequence, and spacing can get wonky with Indic scripts because of how combining works).

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     ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 12:21:13 JST ShadSterling

     @r @dalias it doesn’t work correctly in [all] fixed-width terminals or editors, especially with double-width characters. I make a lot of lists using emoji as category indicators, and sometimes some of them come out double-width, or break the fixed-width rendering, or get rendered overlapping neighboring (which preserves spacing without confining each character to its cell).

     I expect it will improve, like weird effects when backspace removed half an encoded character