Tom HammingMay 30, 2023
Gui Rambo
You can see how emoji combinations/colors work by resizing a Terminal window and having it truncate the UTF-8 string incorrectly 😅
May 17, 2023 at 6:57pmIvory for Mac
Show threadm_eimanMay 17, 2023
@_inside is the Terminal or the shell to blame, though? 🤔
Show threadKuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋May 17, 2023
@_inside this is the best illustration 😃 https://twitter.com/brookLYNevery1/status/1167087999630434304
Brooke Watson Madubuonwu on Twitter

“just learned with horror that deleting any of the "family" emojis in google slides does not remove the emoji, but rather kills off each individual family member one by one, starting with the children”

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Show threadStuart McHattie 👨🏼‍💻May 18, 2023
@mackuba @_inside Thanos has got a lot to answer for.
Show threadMitchell HashimotoMay 18, 2023
@_inside this isn’t a bug unfortunately. Shells still use wclen for accounting and there’s no protocol for shell/term to negotiate they both understand graphemes. So, the rule is you need wclen cells to display otherwise split.
Show threadMitchell HashimotoMay 18, 2023
@_inside as another experiment: highlight the multi code point grapheme in various terminals and see how it’s broken up