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I wonder about the popularity. There are a number of examples in the long Microsoft Terminal issue discussion about sixels, but very little of it seems to be d
by JdeBP 3y ago
I wonder about the popularity. There are a number of examples in the long Microsoft Terminal issue discussion about sixels, but very little of it seems to be day-to-day tasks. Whereas people are getting inventive with Unicode in the little ways, from clever progress bars and spinners to tiny but importantly everyday things like arrows in shell prompts.
I just myself wrote a pseudo-window login dialogue (a replacement for the login(1) program for framebuffer terminal emulators that can do Unicode) using MouseText from the Apple IIc, which got added to Unicode version 13 in 2020.
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- wkat4242 3y agoYes the spinners that are made of braille are nice. And graphs. But unicode support is pretty ubiquitous now. It works great. Despite advanced unicode (ligatures, emoji) not really playing nice with monospaced fonts, most terminals handle it very well.
- wkat4242 3y agoBy the way yes it's relatively popular, out of the various options. Sixels are more popular than Kitty's protocol and what iTerm2 has. Though more and more console libraries are supporting multiples of these which will help get more reach for all of them.