Digging Into Utf 8

Not sure if this addresses your issue, but symbol characters (https://copychar.cc/symbols/) are useful where emojis aren’t always compatible, and will match your color:

• ✓
• ✗

that’s an excellent point, ✗ and ✓ (which are UTF-8 “symbols” as opposed to “emojis”) can be displayed in pretty much all the fonts

What I could do:

• red color + ✗ (✗ = U+2717 : BALLOT X, I looked it up here)
• green color + ✓ (✓ = U+2713 = CHECK MARK)

But since today’s terminal emulators all support UTF-8 emojis, I prefer keeping my emojis 😅

Using the macOS “emoji picker” (⌃⌘+space), I realized that Unicode and UTF-8 are different. For example, searching for “space” would yield:

|—————-|—————–|—————–| | NO-BREAK SPACE | Unicode: U+00A0 | UTF-8: C2 A0 | | EN SPACE | Unicode: U+2002 | UTF-8: E2 80 82 | | EM SPACE | Unicode: U+2003 | UTF-8: E2 80 83 |

What is U+XXXX?? And what is C2 A0??

And why does the author of this stackoverflow question say that EM SPACE is “8195 in UTF-8” since UTF-8 is usually given in hexadecimal format?