Unicode text terminal working group (TTWG)

[Kurt Hindenburg]

Hello, I’ll add the Konsole devel list.  There are a few people more apt to participate.
 Thanks, 
    Kurt

> On Apr 18, 2024, at 7:39 PM, Fraser Gordon <fraserjgordon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the chair of a working group set up by the Unicode consortium. The WG is aiming to create a standard and some recommendations to improve the rendering of complex text in terminal applications. (We're taking a broad view of "complex" -- scripts that require shaping, emoji, variation sequences, unusually wide single characters, ...).
> 
> The goal is to have a Unicode technical standard (UTS) that allows applications to reliably know how a string will be rendered by terminals that implement the UTS. The full scope hasn't been settled yet but I can see us discussing BiDi rendering, cursor movement, partial cell overwrite and other related topics too.
> 
> As a terminal implementer, I'm hoping you'd be willing to participate in the WG. Since many people interested in this topic are doing it in their free time (myself included), I'm trying to keep everyone's time commitments to a minimum. For now, I'm setting up 1 hour meetings roughly monthly for discussion. There's also a mailing list where I'll be posting updates & announcements if you're interested in following along but can't make the meetings. We're also setting up a public GitHub repo for development of the standard.
> 
> If you're interested, let me know and I'll send you an invite for the mailing list and details of our next meeting.
> 
> P.S You were mentioned by one of the other participants as being the right person for Konsole; if that's not right or if there are other folks who work on it I should invite, I can add them too (or you can pass along this email and they can ping me).
> 
> Fraser Gordon