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1. wyager+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-04-23 20:49:20
What percentage of monospace text on the internet uses random obscure glyphs? This isn't really a practical problem.
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2. script+bG[view] [source] 2025-04-24 03:48:04
>>wyager+(OP)
Pretty much anyone coding in another language. Coders do sometimes buy fonts if they are into fonts and nice terminals.
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3. wyager+Pz5[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-25 19:55:44
>>script+bG
To reiterate the original question: "what percentage"?
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4. kiitos+iJl[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-05-01 16:35:15
>>wyager+Pz5
What do you think are "random obscure glyphs"? Is the Turkish lowercase 'i' (ı) one of them? What about the German Eszett (ß)? Is 'ö' a random obscure glyph? What about 'ø'?
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5. wyager+5ap[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-05-02 18:26:07
>>kiitos+iJl
Yes, those are obscure and unlikely to naturally show up in monospace texts.

What percentage of computer programs do you think are written in turkish?

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6. kiitos+jhp[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-05-02 19:14:47
>>wyager+5ap
Sorry, the question was actually rhetorical: those glyphs are in no way obscure, they're super common. A text isn't monospaced or not, a text is just a text, monospaced is a property of a typeface that can be used to render a text, it's adjacent to other properties of typefaces like serif or sans-serif. When you dismiss stuff like ü or ø or ß or etc. as "obscure" (and, transitively, irrelevant) it comes across as ignorance.
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