fix(tui): stop drawing from the unicode blocks a plain terminal font lacks

Three separate "why are there boxes" reports, and I fixed them one glyph at a
time instead of as a class, so the next one was always waiting. Grouping the
tester's terminal by unicode block made the rule obvious:

  RENDERS   Latin-1 (·), Box Drawing (─ │), Block Elements (█ ▛ ▐),
            Geometric Shapes (○ ▶), General Punctuation (…), Arrows
  TOFU      Miscellaneous Technical (⏎ U+23CE, ⏵ U+23F5), the sparse end
            of Dingbats (❯ U+276F)

That is an ordinary font, not a broken one, so it is the profile to design
against. The working spinner moves off Dingbats and Math Operators onto
quadrant blocks (▖▘▝▗) — the same block as the `▛█▐` art claude itself draws,
which that font renders fine — and the blocked marker moves off `⚠`
(Misc Symbols, emoji presentation on many terminals) onto `▲`, the block that
already gives us `▶` and `○`.

The preview fold gains claude's own spinner dingbats (✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽ ✴ → `*`) and
`⚠` → `!`. Its animated status line is exactly where a reader looks, so tofu
there is the most visible kind there is.

A test now enforces this as a CLASS: no glyph in the unicode set may come from
Misc Technical, Misc Symbols or Dingbats, with U+2714 the single documented
exception because it was observed rendering on the very font that failed the
others. Verified by scanning a live frame driven with the tester's exact
environment: zero glyphs from any of the three blocks.
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Codeman maintainer
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
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commit c59f006bb6
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@@ -354,6 +354,16 @@ const PREVIEW_GLYPH_FOLD: ReadonlyMap<string, string> = new Map([
['\u23F7', 'v'], // ⏷
['\u2771', '>'], // ❱
['\u2770', '<'], // ❰
// claude's own working/done spinner cycles through these, and they are the
// same sparse-Dingbats class as `❯`: the animated line is exactly where a
// reader looks, so tofu there is the most visible kind.
['\u2722', '*'], // ✢
['\u2733', '*'], // ✳
['\u2217', '*'], // ∗
['\u273B', '*'], // ✻
['\u273D', '*'], // ✽
['\u2734', '*'], // ✴
['\u26A0', '!'], // ⚠ Misc Symbols, and emoji-presentation on many terminals
]);
/**
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@@ -134,17 +134,29 @@ export interface TuiGlyphSet {
*
* COVERAGE: a plain terminal font carries far less than the unicode TIER
* implies. The tier answers "is the locale UTF-8", which says nothing about
* whether a given codepoint has a glyph. A beta tester's font drew `·`, `─`,
* `│`, `○`, `▶` and `✔` perfectly while drawing `⏎` (U+23CE) as an empty box.
* Prefer Latin-1, Arrows (U+2190–21FF), Box Drawing, Block Elements and
* Geometric Shapes, which every monospace font ships; treat Dingbats,
* Miscellaneous Symbols and anything with emoji presentation as suspect.
* whether a given codepoint has a glyph.
*
* One beta tester's font mapped the blocks like this, and it is the profile to
* design against because it is an ordinary terminal font, not a broken one:
*
* RENDERS Latin-1 (·), Box Drawing (─ │), Block Elements (█ ▛ ▐),
* Geometric Shapes (○ ▶), General Punctuation (…), Arrows
* TOFU Misc Technical (⏎ U+23CE, ⏵ U+23F5), the sparse end of
* Dingbats (❯ U+276F)
*
* So: draw from the blocks on the first line. Dingbats, Miscellaneous
* Technical, Miscellaneous Symbols and anything with emoji presentation are
* out — that class produced three separate "why are there boxes" reports, one
* per glyph, because each was fixed on its own instead of as a class.
*/
const UNICODE_GLYPHS: TuiGlyphSet = {
blockedPermission: '⚠',
blockedQuestion: '⚠',
blockedPermission: '▲',
blockedQuestion: '▲',
waiting: '!',
working: ['·', '✢', '✳', '∗', '✻', '✽'],
// Quadrant blocks, which rotate as a spinner and live in the same block as
// the `▛█▐` art claude itself draws — proven to render on the font that
// failed the dingbats this used to use.
working: ['▖', '▘', '▝', '▗'],
idle: '○',
recent: '✔',
cursor: '▶',