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Re:Hyper 2, Electron based terminal by Immortalin on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:45AM (#16901288)
Because it's pretty. Because you get state of the art Unicode decoding and support. Because you can get a terminal on Linux in a first class GUI system that's normalized across all major operating systems backed by billions of investment.
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Re:Hyper 2, Electron based terminal by danieldk on Monday April 23, 2018 @04:06AM (#16901430)
Because you get state of the art Unicode decoding and support.

What does this even mean? UTF-8 decoding is trivial. In fact it's designed to be simple: it's a prefix code that is self-synchronizing.

Rendering glyphs and composing characters is hard in comparison. But Cocoa, Qt, etc. have had great support for rendering unicode for ages now.

I have no recollection of having problems with iTerm, Terminal.app and many Linux terminals for rendering unicode the last decade or so. (Only with people setting their locales wrong.)

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Re:Hyper 2, Electron based terminal by rusk on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:57AM (#16901372)
Most modern terminal emulators will give you all of this, in fairness, and it’s probably one of the simplest classes of programs for which to provide this!
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