@lyse (#tzlkn3q) Fun fact, good support for emojis often also means good support for Unicode in general and that means … well, see for yourself, run this in a couple of different terminals: `curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nickboucher/trojan-source/main/C/commenting-out.c` (I’m honestly surprised why it took so long for this to get popular.)

@fastidious (#tzlkn3q) Yeah, it’s the correct URL. It’s a show case of Unicode “right-to-left” control characters. Depending on which program/terminal you use to display that file, it looks very different. See also:

(#tzlkn3q) @fastidious, ta! Yes, it's quite a cool concept to just reuse and join existing words in order to come up with other nouns. The only downside is that compound words are longer than "artificially" crafted new ones, but I don't mind that at all. Haha, in fact that one worked, just the other one didn't, @movq: :-D Indeed, I'm using urxvt. So what terminal do you guys recommend? I have plenty of terminals open, so I want them to start really fast and don't use too much memory.

(#tzlkn3q) @fastidious Are you satisfied with emoji support on runlevel 3? ;-)

(#tzlkn3q) Just realized, you probably don’t see that emoji. 🤣

(#tzlkn3q) @movq Testing in Konsole (the KDE terminal emulator) shows an itty bitty improvement, but one or two symbols more isn't really making much difference. So back to Urxvt it is. Actually I don't care about emojis at all. My old-school smileys are good enough for the girls I go out with. I try to avoid all GTK applications as much as possible. Their UI usually just sucks and basic functionality is stripped with each release, so no, thank you. Haha, great idea, that RTL bug material might be fun to test with. :'-D

Weather forecast was quite off today. When it was supposed to rain it didn't. We even had hail some time. While buying milk in the evening I ran into drizzle although dry air was predicted. Made for nice photos though.

@lyse (#tzlkn3q) 😲

@fastidious (#tzlkn3q) IIRC, his client runs in urxvt, which isn’t particularly good at that fancy font stuff. I might be wrong, though. I just vaguely remember seen screenshots like that. 🤔

@lyse (#tzlkn3q) On Linux, you don’t have that many options, realistically. If you want good emoji support, you basically need a terminal that uses the VTE library (or maybe something from the KDE world, dunno). Something like sakura or lxterminal. Or you can try my xiate, but I don’t know how much longer I can keep maintaining that … GTK4 is lurking and everything is pushing hard towards Wayland, which means removing X11 features from libraries like GTK (because … yeah, why?). I have not yet started porting xiate to GTK4, though. If shit hits the fan, I might just switch to suckless st or use urxvt myself. Oh, and xiate is not memory friendly (anymore), it uses ~44 MB per terminal.