Background color of Unicode characters not displayed completely

[mark-wehrmann]

import colorama

colorama.init()
print("\N{WHITE CHESS KNIGHT}")
print("\N{WHITE CHESS ROOk}")
print(colorama.Back.YELLOW + "\N{WHITE CHESS KNIGHT}" + colorama.Back.RESET)
print(colorama.Back.RED + "\N{WHITE CHESS ROOK}" + colorama.Back.RESET)

This give following output:

As you can see the background color of the Chess figures is only displayed up to half of the actual character.

Is there a workaround available?

[shaperilio]

Just FYI, it seems a lot of fonts don't respect / don't properly define the width of some / all unicode characters. Try printing several knights / rooks on the same line, they're probably going to be on top of each other.

For example, in Windows 10 with PowerShell 7.3.6, I don't even get the characters - but the width is correct:

In whatever font VSCode uses, I get the same as you:

If I add a space after the characters in question, the background "fills in":

import colorama

colorama.init()
print("\N{WHITE CHESS KNIGHT}")
print("\N{WHITE CHESS ROOK}")
print(colorama.Back.YELLOW + "\N{WHITE CHESS KNIGHT} " + colorama.Back.RESET)
print(colorama.Back.RED + "\N{WHITE CHESS ROOK} " + colorama.Back.RESET)