Copy and paste "🧑🌾" in your terminal emulator. How many cells forward did your cursor move? Depending on your terminal emulator, it may have moved 2, 4, 5, or 6 cells1. Yikes. This blog post describes why this happens and how terminal emulator and program authors can achieve consistent spacing for all characters. Character Grids, Historically Terminals operate on a grid of fixed size cells. Thi