> Which Unicode symbols are you referring to?
> In particular, are you talking about multi-color symbols (Emoji) or
> other Unicode symbols?
I use `diminish-mode` to squash some minor mode names to single unicode symbol, here are some of them: ⨠ ¬ ↻ ⧊ ⎌. The issue appear not only for Unicode symbols, but also for cyrillic characters too.
> When you say ‘start Emacs manually from shell’, do you mean run the GUI
> Emacs from the shell, or run it within the terminal?
>
> How are you running it, just typing ‘emacs’?
Yes, I mean GUI application. I have two ways to launch GUI app — by clicking on Emacs icon (the issue appears), and by command invocation in my terminal; I use `fish` shell with default Mac OS Terminal app, the exact command I'm using is
fish -c '/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs&'
Regards!