On 29Nov2021 09:19, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 8:10 AM dn via Python-list ><python-list@python.org> wrote: >> However, when trying the above, with our local flag in (Fedora Linux, >> Gnome) Terminal or PyCharm's Run terminal; the two letters "N" and "Z" >> are shown with dotted-outlines. Similarly, the Mauritius' flag is shown >> as "M" and "U". >> >> Whereas here in email (Thunderbird) or in a web-browser, the flags >> appear, as desired. >> >> Is this a terminal short-coming (locale charmap -> UTF-8 - which brings >> to mind the old UCS-4 questions), a font issue, or what (to fix)? > >Probably a font issue. Not many fonts support the flags.
Agree about the font support. Some terminal emulators make an effort to have fallback fonts for when your preferred font lacks a glyph. IIRC urxvt is such a terminal on Linux. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
