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		switz 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Box of Rain - Auto-Layouted ASCII Diagram... TIL about ambiguous width unicode characters. Turns out some locales render these chars as double width. I'm attempting to work out a solution. Seems like maybe there are some universal half-width characters that can be used. https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/

Retr0id 66 days ago | [–]

Unfortunately even if you pick nominally-equal-width glyphs, on the web you can still get screwed over by font substitution/fallback done by the browser.

exceptione 66 days ago | [–]

Weird. Same issue with NL-locale @ firefox, while terminal is ok. So it is not confined to East-Asian locales if that is what you think.

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