amelius 11 hours ago

How can it detect if Unicode codepoints have corresponding glyphs?

  • yorwba 10 hours ago

    It cannot. But it can detect whether the terminal emulator is shifting the cursor by the correct number of cells when displaying a character.

    Glyph support is typically left to the system font stack, but positioning and hence cursor movement needs to be handled by the terminal emulator.

    • amelius 10 hours ago

      In that case, I want a detection software that can screen-grab the terminal to check if the glyphs are correct.

rurban 14 hours ago

Thanks for recommending foot. Never heard of this one

chris_wot 10 hours ago

Is there a way of reporting this to the terminal creators?

userbinator 14 hours ago

When you want plain text and nothing but plain text, Unicode in the terminal is a hazard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957397

  • bawolff 12 hours ago

    That has nothing to do with unicode.

    • dwattttt 10 hours ago

      > ucs-detect automatically tests the Unicode version and support level...

      The first line of the site suggests otherwise.

      • bawolff 7 hours ago

        The link in userbinator's comment has nothing to do with unicode. ucs-detect obviously does.