This is kind of a spin off from an older question I asked.
Here's the screenshot from that question:
- In the bottom left is URxvt, and you can see a lighting bolt-like icon at the beginning of the prompt, that's
"\ue00a"
; - in the bottom right is
xfce-terminal
from Xfce, and you can see that it renders the very same"\ue00a"
Unicode point in a very different way!
I was under the impression that when I read something like "\ue00a"
, "\u263b"
, "\u1d43d"
and so on, I'm most likely looking at the identity of a symbol, as defined by Unicode.
However, how strange would the definition need to for it to allow 2 terminal emulators to show it so differently?
Incidentally, I don't know how much of this is due to the terminals and how much to the fonts.
I am asking this question (like the other I linked) in order to get a better understanding of the whole matter.
echo
lines. That way readers can cut-and-paste into their own terminals. Also, am I to understand that the central question is about a (terminal-specific) custom prompt? Thx. – jubilatious1 May 16 '23 at 09:30