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▲Ucs-Detect (ucs-detect.readthedocs.io)
28 points by djoldman 32 days ago | 11 comments
joshka 22 days ago [-]
I really want a caniuse.com (canicli / caniconsole?) of this data.
djoldman 21 days ago [-]
Something close to that is the table here:

https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/results.html

It's not at the lowest granularity though.

amelius 22 days ago [-]
How can it detect if Unicode codepoints have corresponding glyphs?
yorwba 22 days 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 22 days ago [-]
In that case, I want a detection software that can screen-grab the terminal to check if the glyphs are correct.
chris_wot 22 days ago [-]
Is there a way of reporting this to the terminal creators?
rurban 22 days ago [-]
Thanks for recommending foot. Never heard of this one
userbinator 22 days 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 22 days ago [-]
That has nothing to do with unicode.
dwattttt 22 days ago [-]
> ucs-detect automatically tests the Unicode version and support level...

The first line of the site suggests otherwise.

bawolff 22 days ago [-]
The link in userbinator's comment has nothing to do with unicode. ucs-detect obviously does.
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