Does this comment break HN for anyone else? I can press "next" on any other post, but not this one. And in the next post, pressing "prev" does not scroll to this one. It does nothing. Prev works fine when pressed on this (or any other) post
replyWorks fine for me in Firefox.
replyThe Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?!
replyUnlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)
replyLast I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.
replyIt 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
replyIt'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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replyI fear for the children who had to memorize this.
replyIt 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
replyJust found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
reply> what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising.
replyThere is nothing to fear, MY HUMAN FRIEND!
We avoid censorship by ⸻ more often and talking to ⸻ about ⸻.
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replyThat’s a big dash
replyFor you. But is it the biggest dash? And what is its intended purpose? I've never seen one that big before.
reply⸻ the three em dash
replyapparently used like ellipses … to indicate part of a quote was removed.