Detect whether the terminal supports advanced Unicode.

Checks if terminal supports advanced Unicode (CJK, emoji, etc.) by measuring the cursor position of a single, wide char (𠀀). Returns False for legacy consoles or True if the wide char renders as 2 columns.

pip install is-unicode-supported

is-unicode-supported  # or supportsunicode
# e.g. => True

CLI options:

import is_unicode_supported

if is_unicode_supported():
    print('Advanced Unicode supported!')
else:
    print('Advanced Unicode not supported!')

Note: Most type checkers will falsely warn is_unicode_supported is not a callable module because they are incapable of analyzing runtime behavior (where the module is replaced w/ a function for cleaner, direct access). You can safely suppress such warnings using # type: ignore.

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