Re: Is emoji +VC15, +VC16, without VC one or two columns with monospace font?🏝️

Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:51:46 +0300

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> From: Dilyan Palauzov <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:00:50 +0300
> 
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Is emoji +VC15, +VC16, without VC one or two columns with monospace font?🏝️
> Date: 26/04/25 10:02:48
> 
> > I think you have very outdated mental model of how the Windows console works and how it represents and encodes characters.  
> > In particular, the width of a character is NOT determined by the length of its byte sequence, but by the font glyphs used to display those characters.
> 
> I am confused.  Does the width of an emoji/a character depend on the font (thus font designers decide this), or does it depend on EastAsianWidth.txt ?

It depends on the font, but the font is supposed to go by what
EastAsianWidth.txt says.