Some characters do false-positively count as 2 while occupying 1 column in terminal

[erictheswift]

stringWidth('◼') // 2 in v7, 1 in v5
stringWidth('⚠') // 2 in v7, 1 in v5
stringWidth('✔') // 2 in v7, 1 in v5
(likely not complete list)

seems related to emoji-regex package updates

I guess it is not true that every character considered as emoji due to spec occupies double width. At least at current moment in time.
mathiasbynens/emoji-regex#33

[fabiospampinato]

More test cases where this happens, emoji-regex seems indeed potentially buggy:

t.is(stringWidth('\u21a9'), 1);
t.is(stringWidth('\u2194'), 1);
t.is(stringWidth('\u2197'), 1);
t.is(stringWidth('✔'), 1);
t.is(stringWidth('\u2709'), 1);
t.is(stringWidth('\u26a0'), 1);

[unlessgames]

I get the same issue with ♥ for example. Until resolved, one can stick with version ^5.1.2.

[simnalamburt]

I got the same issue with ♀ and ♂ in v7 and v6. I'm sticking with v5.1.2 too.

[dmail]

Is there any solution besides sticking with v5.1.2?

Because version v5.1.2 is causing the following error for me:

Cannot find package 'eastasianwidth' 

(This is because my workspace use both version 7.2.0 and 5.1.2 which NPM fails to properly install apparently)

Update: For now I can fix NPM installation by explicitely adding "eastasianwidth": "^0.2.0", alongside string-width dep:

{
    "string-width": "5.1.2",
    "eastasianwidth": "^0.2.0",
}