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

[Dilyan Palauzov]

Hello Eli,

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is emoji +VC15, +VC16, without VC one or two columns with monospace font?🏝️
Date: 26/04/25 10:02:48

> I think you have very outdated mental model of how the Windows console works and how it represents and encodes characters.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.

I am confused.  Does the width of an emoji/a character depend on the font (thus font designers decide this), or does it depend on EastAsianWidth.txt ?

Greetings
  Дилян