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tonsky / FiraCode

Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
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Diagonal line character U+2571 is too small #1414

Open mawkler opened 2 years ago

mawkler commented 2 years ago

In most fonts the character ╱ (U+2571 ) spans from top to bottom which allows drawing diagonal lines over multiple lines, however in FiraCode it doesn't.

This is what it looks like in most other fonts (this is NotoSansMono Nerd Font):

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This is what it looks like in FiraCode:

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The same goes for ╲ (U+2572) and ╳ (U+2573).

tonsky commented 2 years ago

Not really. This is what they look in Fira Code v6 right now (the empty space in the middle is a bug, will fix)

Screenshot 2022-05-22 at 22 47 52
tonsky commented 2 years ago

With the fix (in v7):

Screenshot 2022-05-22 at 22 58 37
mawkler commented 2 years ago

You're probably right. I realize that I'm running a version of FiraCode that I patched like a year ago or more. I'll make sure to update. Thanks!