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Better support for unicode characters

See original GitHub issue

Apparently the characters that vtop outputs are not supported currently by xterm.js (whereas they are in hterm. We should support them!

https://github.com/MrRio/vtop

Additional context: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1275#issuecomment-271679999

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:20 (13 by maintainers)

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mofuxcommented, Jan 11, 2017

@Tyriar xterm.js currently has another problem related to this. Emojis and other unicode characters are inserted with their actual width, which causes the line to grow bigger than it should (the cursor leaves the visible area of the screen without causing a line break). As far as I remember, hyper’s hterm modification measures the width of every character, and if it violates the standard monospace width, it puts a span around it that sets the width accordingly. You can validate this by copying this: 😊

Just insert many of them to the terminal, and you will notice that the line will not break where it is supposed to.

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Tyriarcommented, Dec 11, 2018

@Displee did you test if it happens off the master branch? If so please create a new issue, this one is ancient and almost certainly not the problem you’re seeing.

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