Finally found a use for the hideous Unicode "fi" ligature: fitting quotes in 140 chars.https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/882976573510602752 …
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Legacy encodings included them, and Unicode added them to preserve round-trip encoding. They are very deprecated in favor of font ligation.
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Yes. The most hideous part is that several PDF readers/converters produce them in output or clipboard copies for Adobe "fi" glyph...
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Hmm, should there be a monospace font that makes a n-char ligature n characters wide?
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For character-cell fonts it's not possible without getting implementors to agree on changing wcwidth([those chars])...
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Not sure what assumptions applications are entitled to make about "monospace" fonts but it may be a problem there too. :-(
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