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The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?!

• have_faith 8mo ago
  Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)
  • MarioMan 8mo ago
    Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.
    • OJFord 8mo 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?)
    • yorwba 8mo 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 https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab
    • deleted 8mo ago
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    • brcmthrowaway 8mo ago
      I fear for the children who had to memorize this.
      • mghackerlady 8mo ago
        It isn't a special letter or symbol in arabic, it's just a regular sentence that was added to unicode since it both holds symbolic meaning in islam and is used often enough to be useful. Some fonts render it like any other arabic, making it look like one big sentence as a single character, but others render it as calligraphy
    • elinear 8mo ago
      Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!