emoji/unicode support mostly broken in windows

[jerch]

Reminder issue to get the hands dirty to identify/fix unicode issues in windows, for some background see comments in #2568.

[ynechaev]

Any plans to iterate on this issue?

[Tyriar]

Just time is blocking it, I have too many more important things to look at so I doubt I would be able to get to it. This needs some investigation of what differs with emoji between native ptys and Conpty on Windows and to come up with a plan to support both.

[ynechaev]

Emoji support for windows terminal looks backlogged since 2018 microsoft/terminal#190

[Tyriar]

Oh ok, so it's partially supported then. I thought I saw them advertising emoji support as one of the shiny things in WT 🤔

[jerch]

Last time I looked at it the problem was around line/screen refresh pattern used by conpty. The emojis itself came thought but got partially scrambled by wrong offsets of the refreshs (deleting parts of multibyte chars).

[warengonzaga]

Some of the emoji still doesn't show up.

[ullaskunder3]

still no hope... Vs code integrated bash terminal doesn't show all the emoji

• echo emoji using .bash_profile does work but if we directly try to input emoji then it won't work
  
• Emoji shows up in external bash terminal
  

[bitcrazed]

Quick update here: Windows Terminal's emoji layout & handling has improved a lot over the last couple of years and now seems to handle most emoji that I throw at it pretty well. If you find specific emoji that don't render correctly in Windows Terminal, please find/file an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues

VSCode's terminal is a separate implementation built by @Tyriar & team using JavaScript (since VSCode is an Electron-based app) and needs a little work to make emoji work better. As Daniel points out above, "this needs some investigation" so could be a good candidate for someone with some time available to dig in and see if improvements can be made?

[aetonsi]

Hi,
the issue i submitted to microsoft/vscode reports a bug in the pasting routine, and i've been redirected here.
Briefly: If the text is pasted via right-click, it breaks up in multiple � characters. If the text is pasted via ctrl+v, it works correctly.

I just opened another issue in microsoft/terminal that might be related, i'm not sure: microsoft/terminal#14084