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2020 May 03
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Character Column-width Calculations
I just submitted a patch on bugzilla[1] to update the internal column-width tables to a more recent version of Unicode.? The most obvious way this shows up is with emoji now having a computed width of 2 columns instead of 1 once the patch is applied:
> nchar('\U0001F600', type='width'). # grinning face emoji
[1] 2
This wasn't really an issue for a long time as many terminals didn't even do this properly either, but over the last couple of years it seems as if terminals have started to update their width tables.
I don't personally care mu...