Allow to disable emoji in output

[giuscri]

As an environment variable (e.g. BLACK_HIDE_EMOJIS) or as an option.

[JelleZijlstra]

What's your motivation?

[giuscri]

emoji support can be problematic on some platform. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30045

The reason why I noticed you can't toggle emojis is that my terminal crashed when using black . Currently I solved by sending stderr of black to devnull.

[ambv]

This sounds like something that should be fixed or worked around in your terminal, not in end-user tools that use Unicode characters. I happen to have a non-Latin 1 character in my first name so I'm rather sensitive to bad Unicode support.

[giuscri]

I see your point. Also, I didn't noticed there's a --quiet option in black. Closing this.

[waldronfaulkner]

Opinion: there should be an option to disable emoji output. There are a lot of people—old or not—who feel emojis are dumb and unprofessional and just lower the tone of everyday work when they're spattered all across our consoles

[ArsenArsen]

Hi! Some of my co-developers raised concerns about emojis looking out of place in CI output, so I'd like to propose a BLACK_NO_FUN environment variable that allows for them to be disabled on site, if the user hates fun.

I see that it's been proposed to use --quiet, the issue with that, though, is that it does not show other information too, so it's not worth it.

PS: I'd be fine with contributing this myself, but I'd like to get prior discussion with the maintainers.

Thanks in advance.

[jap]

I just ran across some code making use of emojis, all-caps words and coloring in a script that calls black and some other formatters and linters.
The reason was to make sure it stands out more than black's output. This is just a race to the bottom for attention :(

[TimZaman]

unicode support is fine, but just like jap said - there is no need to hijack attention what is otherwise a calming terminal experience.

[draeath]

I'd like to see this as well. Gives it a non-professional feel, which is unfair I know, but there it is.