From cf324529175712873522b85ceb5834d5cd4d00d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Imms <daimms@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:23:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Treat \u279C arrow as ambiguous width char (like emoji)

Fixes #974
---
 src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts b/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts
index 8e9e23fc3..9334f1093 100644
--- a/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ export class ForegroundRenderLayer extends BaseRenderLayer {
    * @param char The character to search.
    */
   private _isEmoji(char: string): boolean {
+    // Check special ambiguous width characters
+    if (char === '➜') {
+      return true;
+    }
+    // Check emoji unicode range
     return char.search(/([\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFF])/g) >= 0;
   }
 

From ead45fe4d027eabc01e580006e4751d0b3ded091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Imms <daimms@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:59:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add a TODO

---
 src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts b/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts
index 9334f1093..19625466e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/ForegroundRenderLayer.ts
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ export class ForegroundRenderLayer extends BaseRenderLayer {
    * @param char The character to search.
    */
   private _isEmoji(char: string): boolean {
+    // TODO: We need a generic solution for handling characters like this
     // Check special ambiguous width characters
     if (char === '➜') {
       return true;