← Back to context Comment by isoprophlex 18 hours ago The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?! 8 comments isoprophlex Reply have_faith 18 hours ago Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?) MarioMan 17 hours ago Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. yorwba 16 hours 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 17 hours 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 16 hours ago I fear for the children who had to memorize this. 1 reply → elinear 16 hours ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
have_faith 18 hours ago Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?) MarioMan 17 hours ago Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. yorwba 16 hours 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 17 hours 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 16 hours ago I fear for the children who had to memorize this. 1 reply → elinear 16 hours ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
MarioMan 17 hours ago Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. yorwba 16 hours 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 17 hours 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 16 hours ago I fear for the children who had to memorize this. 1 reply → elinear 16 hours ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
yorwba 16 hours 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 17 hours 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?)
elinear 16 hours ago Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
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!