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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Replying to @RichFelker
Why would Unicode need a ligature (as opposed to the font)? Also, it doesn't even render as a ligature in this font!
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Replying to @stevecheckoway
Thanks, you just explained why it's hideous. :-)
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Replying to @RichFelker @stevecheckoway
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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Replying to @FakeUnicode @stevecheckoway
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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Fake “Boonicode.†↙️ Retweeted Oliver Burnett-Hall
Fake “Boonicode.†↙️ added,
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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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