Some emojis break the table layout

[soywod]

Like 🏕️.

[TornaxO7]

I have general suggestion here: Why are we not using a TUI-lib crate for printing out the table?

[soywod]

Because I did not find a decent one, plus the need was quite simple. I'm happy so far with the custom result!

[TornaxO7]

Hm... ok. Because I was thinking about tui-rs with its table feature.
I don't know how much you know about tui-rs, but just in case:
We could configure it to print the table only once without starting a loop so we could leave the UI-logic to tui-rs.

[soywod]

I did not know about such feature in tui-rs, interesting! But I'm a bit afraid to compile and package all tui-rs just for the table feature. You can try a POC and see if you want!

[soywod]

unicode-rs/unicode-width#27

[toastal]

Not blaming you but like... why are people putting emojis in their subjects? :\

[soywod]

Ask them 🤣 but often it is "commercial" emails, like recruitment or newsletters.

[soywod]

unicode-rs/unicode-width#27

I got a reply from there, it is not possible to always know the rendered width of an unicode. But I found out why some emoji break the table layout: there is special chars called variation selectors that are placed just after an emoji and can changed the appearance by selecting a variation of this same emoji. The work around I found is to remove such selectors from the table…

[toastal]

Long-term: I'd like to see the ability to disable rendering emoji. It just looks bad and unnatural in my terminal.

[soywod]

I re-open the issue, as it seems to be broken again since the use of comfy-table, see Nukesor/comfy-table#53 #497.

[soywod]

Closing back, since the issue comes from terminal emulators in general.