Emojis in tables messes up the column alignment

My assumption is this is due to emojis taking up two unicode codepoints but getting rendered using only spot. As a result, the columns are off.

Reproduction:

from rich.console import Console
from rich.table import Table
console = Console()
table = Table(title="Emoji Table")
table.add_column("emoji", justify="left", no_wrap=True)
table.add_row(":smiley:")
table.add_row(":no_entry:")
table.add_row(":white_heavy_check_mark:")
console.print(table)

[willmcgugan]

It’s kind of an interaction of both. The only real solution would be to know what version of the unicode database the given terminal is using, and that’s just not exposed anywhere.

btw what terminal are you using? Those characters work fine in iTerm, Ubuntu, and Windows Terminal.

[willmcgugan]

As you have discovered, the browser renders emoji differently from the terminal.

The only solution I have thought of would be to parse out emoji, and force them in to a span with a width that matches the terminal. I think that would work, but it will make the export function more complex.

It’s not high on my list of priorities. But if you file an issue for this I’ll Likely get to it eventually. Maybe sooner if I get sponsorship.