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It's good to see the plain text, it's been a while that people wanting them.

So many users wants the Special fonts but in here simple is Special to eyes and Mind.

As a developer I agree. Sometimes simplicity is more Special and powerful than complex formats.

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That’s cool ! How did you do that ?

Manually, with spaces. Ironically each actual space took 3 spaces, which HN truncated to one space removing any concept of words. Technically this is incorrect because a real post would be 0x00 and not 0x20, but my point was even ‘basic’ text can be problematic if you’re not aware of encoding types, and it can really fukin bite if you’re not ready for it.

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