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Rendering Emoji in Linux Terminals

Following on from my post about getting TUIs in CentOS 7 to use Unicode I thought I should write a short piece on how to actually get those characters to render in Linux terminals.

Unicode 7 in CentOS 7 TUI Code

I’m in the middle of developing a project in C which uses NCurses and Unicode 7+ characters. This has been working out great in macOS and Fedora 31 where I have been doing most of my testing. But in CentOS I have been having big problems getting the characters to render. This post goes into why and how to fix it.