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I discovered that it's possible to use "icon" in terminal (for eg in prompt) on OS X, as it can be seen here:

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Is it possible to do this on a regular Linux distribution (eg ubuntu) ?

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  • I don't think it currently allows bitmaps in the prompt (utf8 chars are fine) but for an awesome terminal experience, have a look at Terminology in Enlightenment. – symcbean Apr 06 '17 at 13:58
  • [Terminology](https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology) looks indeed very cool! – yves Apr 07 '17 at 11:43
  • On same kind of topic, I found [TerminalImageViewer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35333/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-view-images-from-the-terminal/377368#377368) to display bigger image in terminal with "reasonable" resolution – yves Nov 16 '17 at 17:04

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These are unicode symbols or emoji. Homebrew used to have a Beer Mug as a symbol in its output. As long as you have a font that supports them you will see them. On macOS you can go to the Edit > Emoji and Symbols... to insert them. Not sure of the equivalent on Ubuntu. You should be able to copy-and-paste them into your text editor from here.

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  • For now, it seems that existing terminal [do not support color font](http://askubuntu.com/questions/781851/use-emoji-inside-terminal) – yves Apr 06 '17 at 13:35
  • Try this: [How To See Full Color Emoji on Linux (Updated)](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/enable-color-emoji-linux-svg-font). I'll try it on my Ubuntu VM and let you know the results. – Jacob Degeling Apr 07 '17 at 00:42