Subject: What is the policy/thoughts on embedding icons/emojis/unicode glyphs in package descriptions in PKGbUILD
From: "David C. Rankin" <[email-masked]>
To: Aur-General <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:13:14 -0600

Aur folk,

   I've recently noticed icons or glyphs embedded in package descriptions that 
get shown in the AUR RSS feed. What is the consensus or policy on doing so? A 
recent example: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chat2db-bin

   vim and xterm can't display them and instead show square boxes (vim 
highlights the entire line in a red background)

   Is there a policy or a consensus on this? Why not just limit the charset to 
what vim or xterm supports?

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.