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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?


Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output.

For extra fun when this is implemented correctly, combined with full Unicode support, you can "slice and dice" emojis, so for example: Not all terminals can do emoji and DECDHL, but it's fun to play with and very easy to add to scripts. Alternatively, you might not want to use literal 1970s technology and be interested that Kitty recently introduced a more modern way to get different sized text in a terminal.

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