It takes a PhD to develop that

Re:It takes a PhD to develop that by withinboredom on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:13AM (#28745669)

You can’t use a non-monospace font on a tiled space. Like that literally makes no sense. Of course it won’t look right. This is like asking why you can’t use `out` parameters on an inherent async function.

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Re:It takes a PhD to develop that by makomk on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:44AM (#28746604)

Whether the font is monospace or not isn't really the problem - that causes some aesthetically ugly spacing, but that's to be expected and it's still readable. The big issue is that the code has completely failed to find a glyph for one of the characters used in something as commonplace as a directory listing from the dir command and people expect better than this from font rendering in modern applications.

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Re:It takes a PhD to develop that by withinboredom on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:15AM (#28747777)

If you copy and paste, the characters are there. The problem is that the glyph simply is off the tile.

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Re:It takes a PhD to develop that by maficious on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:28AM (#28745787)

Then again, refterm doesn't f*ck it up. It still renders proportional font; just aligned to tiles. It is essentially doing the same as for emoji.

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