FYI, Unicode 9 only adds support for some characters (e.g. U+1F920, 鸞,
is correctly marked as wide starting from Unicode 9) but others require
an update to Unicode 10 (e.g. U+1F92F, 勞) to be marked as wide.
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** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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> 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
Just for the record:
glibc has just upgraded to Unicode 9.0 in git (forthcoming 2.26 release):
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20313
** Bug watch added: Sourceware.org Bugzilla #20313
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20313
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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.
If, apparently, your system has Unicode 8.0 (where these characters are
still ambiguous) and vim handles them as wide, changing
You've reported this bug against Ubuntu 16.04, whereas Unicode 9.0 was
released in June 2016. The expected behavior in that distro is hence
Unicode 8.0's.
gnome-terminal takes the character width from glib (package:
libglib2.0-0), which has surprisingly upgraded to Unicode 9.0 in a micro
version,
** Attachment added: "For comparison, the same text file being edited correctly
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1665140/+attachment/4819800/+files/emoji-gedit.png
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665140
Title:
Emoji that should be wide, according to Unicode 9, display incorrectly
in the terminal
Status in gnome-terminal
** Attachment added: "Editing text containing emoji in vim within
gnome-terminal"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1665140/+attachment/4819798/+files/terminal-emoji-glitch.png
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