Typing combining characters in Julia

[cormullion]

Hi! When I'm using Julia in the REPL, I can write eg vectors by typing a letter followed by \vec followed by TAB to produce:

(macOS Terminal, Version 2.12 (443), font JetBrainsMono Regular)

In wezterm, it doesn't work so well, because the arrow doesn't appear:

(macOS, wezterm 20220101-133340-7edc5b5a, no font specified, looks like JetBrainsMono)

although the Julia REPL is convinced there's more than one character there.

I copied this "character" and did this:

which looks better when pasting into github:

❯ wezterm ls-fonts --text "e⃗"
e⃗   \u{65}\u{20d7} glyph=70   wezterm.font("STIXGeneral", {weight="Regular", stretch="Normal", italic=false})
                             /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/STIXGeneral.otf, CoreText

wezterm.lua looks like this:

local wezterm = require 'wezterm';

return {
  color_scheme = "Dracula+",
}

I've spent some time searching the copious documents, and can't find anything I can understand that might fix this behaviour. Thanks for any suggestions!

[wez]

I've pushed a commit that seems to resolve this for me. It typically takes about 40 minutes or so to build for macOS. When you see the green check mark next to the commit hash above, you'll be able to download the latest nightly and try it out.

I would recommend setting default_cursor_style="SteadyBar" to avoid a glitch where the vector portion of the combining mark turns invisible when cursoring through/near the glyph.

[cormullion]

Hi! Thanks for looking into this... I think you've definitely fixed it!

Even the rarely used double-stacking works (fairly) well.

The default_cursor_style is definitely needed, otherwise the combining marks keep disappearing:

Thanks again!

[wez]

The block cursor glitch should also be fixed as of bd47979 which you can try in ~40 minutes!

[cormullion]

Hi wez - that fix looks good too!

While designing the JuliaMono font, I've been using many different terminals and editors. I'm coming to the conclusion that - for fonts at least - wezterm is shaping up to be the best terminal around. So thanks again for your work and support!

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