Re: [Help-nano] Some chars like emojis shown blank

[Andreas Schamanek]

Hi Benno,

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, at 21:32, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> > I was wondering why some characters like many emojis (...) are 
> > shown as blanks in Nano (I am using a self-compiled 2.8.7 on a 
> > Debian 8.9 server) whereas they show up fine in VIM or doing a 
> > `cat`
> 
> If you install a Debian-compiled nano, are the emojis shown then?

Good question, thanks! My PCs run Lubuntu 16.04. Nano shows the emojis 
there. But in my remote terminals nothing I tried helped so far. And 
it doesn't matter which nano I use.

> Because all the examples you have given are displayed fine for me in 
> any nano.

So there is hope! :)

I tried several different terminals (xterm, lilyterm, lxterminal, 
screen and tmux). I tried setting LANG + LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8.

I wonder whether it is an issue with libncursesw5 being version
5.9+20140913-1+b1 on the oldstable Debian. Once I ssh into a Debian 9 
(libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1) or Ubuntu 16.04 (libncursesw5 
6.0+20160213) nano shows the emojis.

-- 
-- Andreas

    :-)