From: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:54:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailinfo: support Unicode scissors
Message-ID: <9481b5c1-5fe0-2d83-a721-72cb2a9e6d18@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8As7_qS-JRdMSNJco_=F4r21sjPR32thVrAB_CTrRdz8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 16:27:02 +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:03 AM Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Support UTF-8 encoding of '✂' in function is_scissors_line, for 'git am
>> --scissors' to be able to cut at Unicode perforation lines in emails.
>> Note, that Unicode character '✂' is three bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
> 
> On top of what was already said in this thread. For some reason (bad
> font?) these scissors are drawn cutting _down_ for me instead of left
> or right. It looks a bit strange.

This might be an indication that the font used is rendering the
symbol as an emoji. Most scissors in emoji fonts are vertical:
https://emojipedia.org/black-scissors/