Skip to content

Use compatible checkbox marker glyphs#840

Open
barkure wants to merge 1 commit intomicrosoft:mainfrom
barkure:replace-checkbox-marker
Open

Use compatible checkbox marker glyphs#840
barkure wants to merge 1 commit intomicrosoft:mainfrom
barkure:replace-checkbox-marker

Conversation

@barkure
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

@barkure barkure commented May 1, 2026

Summary

Fixes #747.

  • Replace the checked checkbox/menu marker 🗹 (U+1F5F9 BALLOT BOX WITH BOLD CHECK) with (U+25A0 BLACK SQUARE).
  • Replace the unchecked checkbox marker (U+2610 BALLOT BOX) with (U+25A1 WHITE SQUARE).
  • These replacement glyphs are from the long-standing Unicode Geometric Shapes block, so they should render reliably in common terminal fonts on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • The previous unchecked marker rendered smaller than the checked marker in some terminals, so the new / pair also improves visual consistency between checked and unchecked states.

Happy to use a different marker pair if maintainers prefer another option.

Test plan

  • Built successfully with:
    cargo build -p edit --release
  • Manually tested the resulting binary on macOS.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

Character used for checked options "Ballot Box With Bold Check" not supported on Apple platforms

1 participant