spacing incorrect with monospace font and line drawing characters

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Carl Hagenmaier

It seems that spacing is incorrect for the unicode line drawing characters
even if a monospace font is used.

I would expect the "X"s to line up vertically in the following example

<pre>
abcdeX
┉┉┉┉┉X
</pre>

but they do not. Any suggestions for workarounds?

-C
 
How characters line up is totally dependent on the font. What monospace
font are you using?


Carl Hagenmaier said:
It seems that spacing is incorrect for the unicode line drawing characters
even if a monospace font is used.
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The behavior doesn't seem to change with font. I've tried Courier, Courier
new, and Lucida Console. Firefox displays the page correctly with all three
of these fonts. I would imagine Firefox uses the same font files.

-C
 
I think the problem is most likley that none of the readily-available
monospace fonts actually include that character. If you enter the same
lines into Word or Wordpad, you get the "no glyph" square box. IE is
probably substituting a character from another font when the designated
font doesn't have it, and because of that, the characters don't line up.
I seem to recall the Firefox has a completely different rendering engine,
so it's not surprising that it gives different results.
 
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