22 points | by djoldman 11 days ago
9 comments
I really want a caniuse.com (canicli / caniconsole?) of this data.
How can it detect if Unicode codepoints have corresponding glyphs?
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.
In that case, I want a detection software that can screen-grab the terminal to check if the glyphs are correct.
Thanks for recommending foot. Never heard of this one
Is there a way of reporting this to the terminal creators?
When you want plain text and nothing but plain text, Unicode in the terminal is a hazard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957397
That has nothing to do with unicode.
> ucs-detect automatically tests the Unicode version and support level...
The first line of the site suggests otherwise.
I really want a caniuse.com (canicli / caniconsole?) of this data.
How can it detect if Unicode codepoints have corresponding glyphs?
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.
In that case, I want a detection software that can screen-grab the terminal to check if the glyphs are correct.
Thanks for recommending foot. Never heard of this one
Is there a way of reporting this to the terminal creators?
When you want plain text and nothing but plain text, Unicode in the terminal is a hazard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957397
That has nothing to do with unicode.
> ucs-detect automatically tests the Unicode version and support level...
The first line of the site suggests otherwise.