On 2019-04-30 11:58 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:17:17AM -0500, Major Hayden wrote:
>>On 4/30/19 9:01 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 09:41:59AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 03:27:00PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 09:03:31AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>>>> Hello CKI folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A minor nit: the icon added before the subject text gets filtered out on
>>>>>> the textual email clients most of us use, and ends up appearing (at
>>>>>> least for me) as 3 spaces that cause much annoyance since it gets
>>>>>> confused with mail threading.
If you see 3 spaces rather than just one, you probably use a single-byte
locale (e.g. 'C'), rather than a UTF-8 one.
>>>>> Really? It's just a "normal" emoji character, perhaps you need a better
>>>>> email client or terminal window? :)
>>>>>
>>>>> What are you using that you can't see this in a terminal?
>>>> Um, mutt on xterm...
>>> Use a "modern" terminal program please, that's the problem here. I just
>>> tried 4 different ones (gnome-terminal, terminology, tilix, and kitty),
>>> and they all worked just fine.
>>>
>>> With mutt :)
>>
>>We can change the email format very easily. If removing the emoji in
>> the subject line would be better, that's a really quick change for
>> us.
>>
>>Our hope was that it would make it easier to identify automated CI
>> results and make it easier to know the feedback when you're looking
>> at a lot of email threads.
>
> I thought this was an issue for more people than just me. I'll just use
> a newer terminal emulator :)
Or configure xterm correctly. The '❎'emoji displays just fine under
"LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -fa DejaVuSansMono" (tested with xterm 344).
Cheers,
Sven
