Color Emoji with Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) cannot be rendered correctly #23413

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opened 2026-01-31 08:41:31 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @czy-29 on GitHub (Jul 5, 2025).

Windows Terminal version

1.22.11141.0

Windows build number

10.0.19045.0

Other Software

Latest PowerShell 7.5.2

Steps to reproduce

All Poker Suit Emojis cannot render normally.
They are all composed of two Unicode code points.
You can try the following:

Write-Host "`u{2660}`u{FE0F}"
Write-Host "`u{2665}`u{FE0F}"
Write-Host "`u{2663}`u{FE0F}"
Write-Host "`u{2666}`u{FE0F}"

None of them can render colored Emoji properly.

As a contrast, the color Emoji of single code points render normally:

Write-Host "`u{1F600}"
Write-Host "`u{1F60D}"

Expected Behavior

VSCode's built-in terminal simulator can correctly render such multi code point Emoji. It can be used as expected behavior:

Image

Actual Behavior

The actual behavior of Windows Terminal is buggy:

Image
Originally created by @czy-29 on GitHub (Jul 5, 2025). ### Windows Terminal version 1.22.11141.0 ### Windows build number 10.0.19045.0 ### Other Software Latest PowerShell 7.5.2 ### Steps to reproduce All Poker Suit Emojis cannot render normally. They are all composed of two Unicode code points. You can try the following: ``` Write-Host "`u{2660}`u{FE0F}" Write-Host "`u{2665}`u{FE0F}" Write-Host "`u{2663}`u{FE0F}" Write-Host "`u{2666}`u{FE0F}" ``` None of them can render colored Emoji properly. As a contrast, the color Emoji of single code points render normally: ``` Write-Host "`u{1F600}" Write-Host "`u{1F60D}" ``` ### Expected Behavior VSCode's built-in terminal simulator can correctly render such multi code point Emoji. It can be used as expected behavior: <img width="524" height="174" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b5e8780e-7020-4114-b4ea-7cf198cb1beb" /> ### Actual Behavior The actual behavior of Windows Terminal is buggy: <img width="688" height="313" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/32fd09e9-3497-45f7-b35b-df38979aa6dc" />
claunia added the Issue-BugResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 08:41:31 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#23413