Spaces eaten by certain unicode characters

[olliemath]

Summary

Hello, I'm facing issues with spaces after the 🕵️ in the following text: find 🕵️ the space 🤷 why is it not there? In particular, the space is visible in vim, but not in helix. Here's how vim renders that text:

but with helix, the space character is hidden behind the emoji (it doesn't happen for the other emoji):

This is with helix 23.10 in gnome terminal on ubuntu 22.04

Reproduction Steps

In gnome terminal on ubuntu:

echo "find 🕵️ the space 🤷 why is it not there?" > example.txt
hx example.txt

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

Gnome Terminal 3.44.0 for gnome 42

Installation Method

Ubuntu PPA

Helix Version

helix 23.10 (f6021dd)

[the-mikedavis]

Unicode grapheme width issues are tracked in #6012