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Nov 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM EST

Ucs-Detect

djoldman
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Ucs-Detect is a tool or library with available documentation, shared on HN.

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Discussion (11 comments)
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userbinator
9 days ago
1 reply
When you want plain text and nothing but plain text, Unicode in the terminal is a hazard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957397

bawolff
9 days ago
1 reply
That has nothing to do with unicode.
dwattttt
9 days ago
1 reply
> ucs-detect automatically tests the Unicode version and support level...

The first line of the site suggests otherwise.

bawolff
9 days ago
The link in userbinator's comment has nothing to do with unicode. ucs-detect obviously does.
amelius
9 days ago
1 reply
How can it detect if Unicode codepoints have corresponding glyphs?
yorwba
9 days ago
1 reply
It cannot. But it can detect whether the terminal emulator is shifting the cursor by the correct number of cells when displaying a character.

Glyph support is typically left to the system font stack, but positioning and hence cursor movement needs to be handled by the terminal emulator.

amelius
9 days ago
In that case, I want a detection software that can screen-grab the terminal to check if the glyphs are correct.
rurban
9 days ago
Thanks for recommending foot. Never heard of this one
joshka
9 days ago
I really want a caniuse.com (canicli / caniconsole?) of this data.
chris_wot
9 days ago
Is there a way of reporting this to the terminal creators?

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