Ncurses + Termbox

main.c

/* It's no joke as developers keep struggling with displaying unicode (emoji) characters on an Ncurses screen, I also faced it.
 * After dozens of research [is it actually dozens? :)], here's what I finally came up with that brought smile to my hard research.
 * At least time spent on research was not in vain. Yeah, so I'm making this gist for those C developers out there who are also on the struggle,
 * and probably about to give up, but they love ncurses!! Of course, I almost gave up ncurses. Alright, the work around is below:
 *
 *
 * ## C program to print emoji characters using Ncurses + Termbox
 *
 * **main.c**
*/

#include <ncurses.h>
#include <termbox.h>

int main()
{
        int y, x;
        char *hi = "Hi from here: ";
        
        tb_init();  /* make sure tb_init() is called first before initscr() */
        
        initscr();
        noecho();
        
        SCREEN *newscreen = newterm(NULL, stdout, stdin);
        set_term(newscreen);
        
        y = getcury(stdscr);
        x = getcurx(stdscr);

        mvprintw(y, x, "What's up nigga: ");
        /* Refresh the ncurses window */
        refresh();

        y = getcury(stdscr);
        x = getcurx(stdscr);

        tb_change_cell(x, y, 0x1F622, TB_WHITE, TB_DEFAULT);  /* print a crying face */
        tb_present(); /* display the character (interrupt) */

        getch();
        
        refresh();
        
        endwin();
        delscreen(newscreen);
        tb_shutdown();

        return 0;
}

/*
 *
 * compile using `gcc main.c ($ncurses6-config --clags --libs) -ltermbox -o main`
 *
 * here my ncurses version is ncurses 6, make sure to substitute that with your original ncurses version.
 * Also, `libtermbox` must be installed on your system. Can be installed with:
 * `sudo apt install libtermbox-dev` on debian based systems and most other popular distros
 *
 * and that's it, you should see the emoji being displayed. Mathematics solve! :)
*/