dnkl on Nostr: So... Unicode 16 changed the width of a number of codepoints. Guess what that means ...

So... Unicode 16 changed the width of a number of codepoints. Guess what that means for terminal applications?

Cursor desync, and other glitches, when mixing a Unicode 16 conforming terminal with a non-conforming application (or vice versa). Yay.

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/tr11-43.html#Modifications

Hopefully these characters aren't commonly used...