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emoji cause table column width corruption

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#67 opened on May 9, 2018

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Description

Emojis in cell text cause column width corruption:

stringWidth for ie. 24.2⚠️ returns 6. I am not Unicode expert, but this is most likely related to ZWJ code points and issue in string-width dependency: https://github.com/sindresorhus/string-width/issues/2. Since that issue is almost 2 years old, maybe a different module should be used or own approach implemented?

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Investigate the string width dependency and consider replacing it with an alternative that correctly handles emoji and ZWJ sequences.
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