In Chrome, the terminal cells will grow in width when box-drawing characters are applied

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In Chrome, the terminal cells will grow in width when box-drawing characters are applied #7

Open domsson opened 3 years ago

domsson commented 3 years ago

For example, with the current font and font size, an empty cell (containing a space) is 10px in width, but as soon as we paint some box drawing character into it, it will grow to 12px in width. This makes the entire canvas/terminal "grow". Not great.

domsson commented 3 years ago

Actually, the same can happen in Firefox with some characters, like some pretty big Kanji that I recently put in a palette by accident.

domsson commented 3 years ago

One possible solution would be this dirty JS hack:

go through the entire glyph palette, put each character in a dummy cell
check the calculated size of the cell
keep track of the largest cell
apply that size to all cells

Don't like it at all, but would probably work.