[Bug]: Using backticks breaks rendering

[bebraw]

Edition

Plus

What version are you using?

2.009 (prerelease)

What type of weights are you using?

Default (non-customized)

Operating system

MacOS

Program

VS Code

Display resolution

No response

What happened?

If I enter a backtick (`) to my code, it renders it like below:

Expected render in another font for comparison:

[jpallatin]

Yes. I experienced this while writing some JS code (testing 2.009) . IMHO, that backtick character could use a little better design, it seems a little inconsistent to me in the font collection (it's somewhat "light" or not visible enough) especially when compared to the single and double quotes.

[MarcusSterz]

@jpallatin What you call backtick in programming is actually an accent called ‘grave’ (like acute, dieresis, ring, caron etc). It is not a variation of or connected to quote symbols therefor the lack of resemblance. In fact it is key to distinguish accents from quotes to prevent confusion. It is usually combined with other letters to create diacritics like à, ò, ì and so on.

We are looking into this issue :)

[jpallatin]

Understood Marcus, that makes all the sense, thanks for the explanation.

[bebraw]

@jpallatin I pushed a new prerelease with the fix to test. It worked locally for me.

[jpallatin]

Thank you. I'm testing right now. So far so good. Reported bug is fixed.

[bebraw]

Ok, let's close. Thanks for confirming.