Alt screen does not move cursor same amount as primary screen for some emoji

[rockorager]

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Operating System

Arch linux

Architecture

x86-64

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

#!/bin/sh

echo "primary screen:"
echo "|--|"
echo "|🏳️‍🌈|"
echo "|📎|"
echo "|📡|"
sleep 5

echo -e "\x1b[?1049h\x1b[?2027h" # enter alt screen and turn on 2027
echo "alternate screen:"
echo "|--|"
echo "|🏳️‍🌈|"
echo "|📎|"
echo "|📡|"

sleep 5

echo -e "\x1b[?1049l"

Expected Behavior

In the alt screen, the cursor only moves one cell for some emoji

Actual Behavior

The cursor should move the same (correct) amount in the primary screen and alt screen

Additional notes

No response

[christianparpart]

Cursor movement mistakes are most likely a bug in unicode grapheme cluster's width handling. I wonder why it's only happening on alt screen and not on primary. Will figure it out. Many thanks for your report, @rockorager :)

[christianparpart]

Okay, this is a dup of #1375 - technically speaking. I am having a PR open over at libunicode that attempts to fix this (with better API and implementation). this should be fixed by the next major Contour release :)