Ucs-Detect

28 pointsposted 3 months ago
by djoldman
(ucs-detect.readthedocs.io)

11 Comments

amelius

3 months ago

How can it detect if Unicode codepoints have corresponding glyphs?

yorwba

3 months ago

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.

amelius

3 months ago

In that case, I want a detection software that can screen-grab the terminal to check if the glyphs are correct.

chris_wot

3 months ago

Is there a way of reporting this to the terminal creators?

rurban

3 months ago

Thanks for recommending foot. Never heard of this one

userbinator

3 months ago

When you want plain text and nothing but plain text, Unicode in the terminal is a hazard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957397

bawolff

3 months ago

That has nothing to do with unicode.

dwattttt

3 months ago

> ucs-detect automatically tests the Unicode version and support level...

The first line of the site suggests otherwise.

bawolff

3 months ago

The link in userbinator's comment has nothing to do with unicode. ucs-detect obviously does.