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I like it and have used a similar homegrown solution for years.

I’d love to switch to a better supported one, but please: work in progress is obviously […]

Not ... but the actual … character which takes the same horizontal space as X on monospaced fonts.

Maybe use it as a second option?

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for your feedback. I think for the status characters there are a lot of imaginable variations and preferences. In the end, I thought that restricting the spec to a single character per status would help to confine the overall complexity of the file format, so it’s a bit of a tradeoff.

That character is not directly on keyboards, so it requires additional, OS-specific knowledge to type it.

I don’t know. That’s a very common character.

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