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d99kris / nchat

Terminal-based Telegram / WhatsApp client for Linux and macOS
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rendering issues with emoji #9

Closed alohawolf closed 4 years ago

alohawolf commented 4 years ago

Some unicode characters cause rendering issues in various terminal emulators.

🔜 and 🐺 cause issues in putty+screen (and some in putty alone)

🇦🇺 🇻🇳 🇳🇱 🇮🇪 cause issues in terminal.app

The way this presents, is it seems to remove a character/space from the screen, so the line drawing characters get to be off by one when this happens.

d99kris commented 4 years ago

Hi @alohawolf - thanks for reporting the issue! It looks however as these issues are in the underlying OS/libraries. For example I did a quick "flag"-test in mc (midnight commander) and the same issue is seen there for the flag, but not for a normal "smiley". This stackoverflow-answer also gives some background on what is likely happening here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54983257/curses-certain-emoji-flags-deform-terminal-output Based on this I will proceed to close this issue. As a workaround you may use the "uilite" interface, which is impacted less by the issue, or try to disable emoji display (Ctrl-E).

alohawolf commented 4 years ago

I can no longer replicate the issues of flags breaking rendering, or any emoji for that matter - that said, neither setting uidefault emoji=0 or control-e seems to effect if emoji show up or not. I'll open a separate issue on that.

d99kris commented 4 years ago

Ok, I did make a fix related to utf-8 output in the contact list, which may or may have helped. Let's track the remaining issue(s) in #15.