> I believe it's the distro's responsibility to ship glib, glibc and vim so that all use the same Unicode version.
Sounds right, and it's good to hear that there's progress on this front. I was afraid the situation was stagnant and it would be up to applications to fix it. > Or even better, but it takes more time and a heavy refactoring: There should be a single core Unicode library that glibc, glib, vim etc. all depend on. Unfortunately I find it unlikely to get implemented. Working a lot with Unicode myself, the thing is that the number of things a Unicode library could do is enormous and no application needs all of them. Many developers consider linking to, for example, ICU to be unacceptable bloat, and I don't blame them. > Also note that in gnome-terminals' Profile Preferences, under the Compatibility tab you can choose whether you want ambiguous width characters to be narrow or wide. I wouldn't want to set *all* ambiguous characters to be wide, like a Japanese OS -- that would break many more things. It's only the emoji that changed. Thanks for the responses. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665140 Title: Emoji that should be wide, according to Unicode 9, display incorrectly in the terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1665140/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
