← Back to context Comment by isoprophlex 1 day ago The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?! 8 comments isoprophlex Reply have_faith 1 day ago Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?) MarioMan 1 day ago Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. yorwba 1 day ago It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab OJFord 1 day ago It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?) brcmthrowaway 1 day ago I fear for the children who had to memorize this. 1 reply → elinear 1 day ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
have_faith 1 day ago Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?) MarioMan 1 day ago Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. yorwba 1 day ago It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab OJFord 1 day ago It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?) brcmthrowaway 1 day ago I fear for the children who had to memorize this. 1 reply → elinear 1 day ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
MarioMan 1 day ago Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. yorwba 1 day ago It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab OJFord 1 day ago It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?) brcmthrowaway 1 day ago I fear for the children who had to memorize this. 1 reply → elinear 1 day ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
yorwba 1 day ago It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab
OJFord 1 day ago It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?)
Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)
Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.
It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab
It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?)
I fear for the children who had to memorize this.
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Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!