Re:Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
by danieldk on Monday April 23, 2018 @04:06AM
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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.)
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.)