On 29Nov2021 22:25, DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote: >>> Probably a font issue. Not many fonts support the flags. >> >> Agree about the font support. Some terminal emulators make an effort to >> have fallback fonts for when your preferred font lacks a glyph. IIRC >> urxvt is such a terminal on Linux. > >Not sure about this. Most other applications on this PC will display the >two countries' flags, as desired, eg Writer, web-browser, even xed >(basic text editor).
Seem Stefan Ram's advice, which points out that you can tell if this is a font problem (no flag glyph) or a combining problem (2 glyphs presented instead of one). I had not considered that. >rxvt: won't compile, gave-up fighting unfamiliar requirements See if there's a package for urxvt, which was the "unicode" flavour of rxvt (long ago - rxvt if probably supposed to be unicode capable these days, surely). >Kitty: works! Yay! >Kitty is not something I've come-across before. Its write-up says >« >Kitty is a free, open-source, and fast, feature-rich, GPU accelerated >terminal emulator for Linux, that supports all present-day terminal >features, such as Unicode, true color, text formatting, bold/italic >fonts, tiling of multiple windows and tabs, etc. A tiling terminal emulator can be a great thing. I'm on a Mac with iTerm, which: - has tabs - has panes (split the view into multiple panels, each running a terminal) My personal dev desktop tends to use a full screen iTerm split vertically into 2 panes: an editor on the left (vim, itself split vertically into 2 vim windows) and a shell on the right; sometimes several shells (right hand pane further split horizontally). Then, since I tend to keep per-branch checkouts around, tabs for the things I'm working on, each configured as above. Then I just switch tabs for the different areas. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
