Color Emoji with Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) cannot be rendered correctly #23418

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opened 2026-01-31 08:41:39 +00:00 by claunia · 3 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:

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Actual Behavior

The actual behavior of Windows Terminal is buggy:

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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: <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 08:41:39 +00:00
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@j4james commented on GitHub (Jul 6, 2025):

I believe this is a known issue. VS-16 can already be used to alter the character width (it may not look like it, but if you follow those glyphs with another character, you'll see that they're taking up two columns). However, VS-16 doesn't yet alter the presentation style. I think that's tracked in issue #13110.

@j4james commented on GitHub (Jul 6, 2025): I believe this is a known issue. VS-16 can already be used to alter the character width (it may not look like it, but if you follow those glyphs with another character, you'll see that they're taking up two columns). However, VS-16 doesn't yet alter the presentation style. I _think_ that's tracked in issue #13110.
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@DHowett commented on GitHub (Jul 7, 2025):

Indeed, this is a /dup of #13110! Thanks for filing!

@DHowett commented on GitHub (Jul 7, 2025): Indeed, this is a /dup of #13110! Thanks for filing!
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@microsoft-github-policy-service[bot] commented on GitHub (Jul 7, 2025):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

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Reference: starred/terminal#23418