Is emoji +VC15, +VC16, without VC one or two columns with monospace font?🏝️

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:21:05 +0200
> From: "piotrunio-2004 at wp.pl via Unicode" <unicode at corp.unicode.org>
> 
> In non-Unix-like terminals, the width is always linearly proportional to the amount of bytes that the text takes
> in memory, because that is how a random access array works. Each character cell takes a constant amount
> of bytes, for example in VGA-compatible text mode there are 16 bits per character cell (8 bits for attributes
> and 8 bits for character code), and in Win32 console there are 32 bits per character cell (16 bits for
> attributes and 16 bits for character code). Whether a character is fullwidth may be determined by the text
> encoding (some legacy encodings such as Shift JIS will store fullwidth characters in the bytes of two
> consecutive character cells) or by attributes.

I think you have very outdated mental model of how the Windows console
works and how it represents and encodes characters.  In particular,
the width of a character is NOT determined by the length of its byte
sequence, but by the font glyphs used to display those characters.