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Appreciate this. Can you explain why there appear to be English-looking letters used for terms but with alternate Unicode versions? Makes everything look jumbly

by tomcam 5y ago

Appreciate this. Can you explain why there appear to be English-looking letters used for terms but with alternate Unicode versions? Makes everything look jumbly but I'm sure there's a good reason.

richdougherty 5y ago
Are you talking about the MathJax rendering used for instruction names?
- tomcam 5y ago
  False alarm. I think it's a font rendering problem on Safari. When I tried Chrome and Firefox it didn't appear. For example, under "External Types" at https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/syntax/types.html#external-types https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/syntax/types.html#external... you see this grammar rule: externtype ::= func functype | table tabletype | mem memtype | global globaltype On Safari, the tokens fun, table, men, and global render with weird font baselines on some letters: c, o, e and a are raised a few points higher than they should be. I just figured these were odd substitutions for ASCII characters from further in the Unicode alphabet, maybe to avoid collisions with other reserved token names or something (vamping here because it was all I could think of). Sorry about that.
  - cormacrelf 5y ago
    I mean, it is definitely a problem. https://pasteboard.co/xzgTi4TxK326.jpg https://pasteboard.co/xzgTi4TxK326.jpg
    - tomcam 5y ago
      SEE I’M NOT INSANE!