Comment by maficious
4 years ago
The "font some random HN commenter happened to use" is some f****** proportional Calibri. I want to see someone use it in any terminal emulator. Refterm defaults to Cascadia Code, but, fair enough, it doesn't have fallback yet.
Its' description says also: "Reference monospace terminal renderer". "monospace" is there for a reason.
It's worth mentioning though, that Windows Terminal also defaults to Cascadia Code and Cascadia Code was installed automatically on my machine, so it's de-facto the new monospace standard font on Windows starting from 10.
> some f*** proportional Calibri Refterm defaults to Cascadia Code
cascadia is as borken as the other font, so what now?
https://i.imgur.com/WeV8Ror.png
maybe writing a unicode rendering isn't that easy? maybe drop the attitude?
>maybe drop the attitude?
You came here with an attitude.
> I just launched "dir" https://i.imgur.com/lkbOR3i.png can't even print properly the decimal separator. maybe it wasn't that easy.
Turned out it defaults to Cascadia Mono, my bad. Still your argument is wrong, because, like it doesn't work on your machine, on mine it does.
which is exactly the point, the amount of shortcut taken to convert code point to fast graphics make it just a nice hack thrown together and devs were right on preferring the slow but correct approach.
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