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TIL about ambiguous width unicode characters. Turns out some locales render these chars as double width. I'm attempting to work out a solution.

Seems like maybe there are some universal half-width characters that can be used.

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/

Unfortunately even if you pick nominally-equal-width glyphs, on the web you can still get screwed over by font substitution/fallback done by the browser.

Weird. Same issue with NL-locale @ firefox, while terminal is ok. So it is not confined to East-Asian locales if that is what you think.

First off, let me say it is awesome you're doing something like this.

But... I'm encountering a similar issue on both Chrome and Firefox on Leenucks. I guess it's possible you don't see the problem on your Mac because both these browsers use the OS to do font rendering.

same in my Brave Browser, why not stick to nomal Ascii?