Fixed-width emoji and symbols about firacode HOT 5 CLOSED

Fira Code does not contain those emojis, so that is a back-up font - which appears to have a different width.

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@kenmcd Yes, I know the font itself does not contain emoji. I only wonder if there's a way for the font (or fonts in general) to instruct the system to "pad" non-aligned characters so that they are aligned with the rest of the font.

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I do not know of any way to force characters to be fixed space using the operating system.
You may want to take a look at Nerd Fonts.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
They make versions of monospace fonts with icons and symbols already merged into them.
Including Fira Mono.
So take a look there first; it may be useful to you.

Merging color emojis is kind of a minefield.
Nerd Fonts has tools to do font merging.
fonttools and nanoemoji also have tools to merge fonts.
I have seen this discussed before in both of those projects, so perhaps someone has already done it.

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if there's a way for the font (or fonts in general) to instruct the system to "pad" non-aligned characters so that they are aligned with the rest of the font

No way. The only solution here is if the app that does text rendering does that. I think some terminals force emoji to character grid, although I’m not sure which ones

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I think almost all terminals do that. But not text editors.

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