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Copy and paste "🧑🌾" in your terminal emulator. How many cells forward did your cursor move? Depending on your terminal emulator, it may have moved 2, 4, 5, or 6 cells . Yikes. This blog post describes why this happens and how terminal emulator and program authors can achieve consistent spacing for all characters.
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Duration
~11 minutes (10K characters)
Release date
Oct 2, 2023