Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66

Re:Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66 by voidUpdate on Thursday March 26, 2026 @04:31AM (#47527947)

Falsehoods programmers believe about text:

- Everybody just uses english text, right?

- Ok, sometimes there might some weird accents or something

- Every character is about the same width

- Well, they're all integer numbers of characters wide

- No character is taller than an english I

- Everybody writes left to right

- Everyone writes horizontally

EDIT: How the hell do you format lists in HN comments

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Re:Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66 by Affric on Thursday March 26, 2026 @05:35AM (#47528360)

Are there terminal emulators that operate on vertical text?

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