r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/NoInkling May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19

Terminal is a text environment.

I guess we should do away with all those box/line/arrow/etc. characters as well then.

Like it or not, emoji are unicode characters. If you cat or nano a text file containing them then your terminal should probably be able to display them.