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isoprophlex 8 hours ago

The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?!

have_faith 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)

MarioMan 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.

yorwba 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab

OJFord 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?)

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brcmthrowaway 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I fear for the children who had to memorize this.

mghackerlady 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It isn't a special letter or symbol in arabic, it's just a regular sentence that was added to unicode since it both holds symbolic meaning in islam and is used often enough to be useful. Some fonts render it like any other arabic, making it look like one big sentence as a single character, but others render it as calligraphy

elinear 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!