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32 points·namuol··11 comments

What font is used to show the minesweeper example in the readme? It survives copy-and-pastes into other editors: http://i.imgur.com/21QzHYJ.png

> font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace;

But how can that be? Especially in vim. Does not happen on Linux.

No idea! Maybe it's actually using unicode characters, instead of plain ascii?

Those characters are fullwidth unicode characters[1] that Monaco apparently does not provide (an application or system default is used).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms

Bingo!

ｈｅｒｅｉｓａｎｅｘａｍｐｌｅ

(This may or may not display on your device)

Edit: Here are some other nice unicode examples:

🄷🄰🄲🄺🄴🅁 🄽🄴🅆🅂 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ђคςкєг ภєฬร 🅗🅐🅒🅚🅔🅡 🅝🅔🅦🅢 ʜᴀᴄᴋᴇʀ ɴᴇᴡꜱ 𝕳𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖗 𝕹𝖊𝖜𝖘 нα¢кєя ηєωѕ

About half of these work on my Windows Vista machine. Curiously, the third-last example works except for the S.

Is there a font one could install so all of these are visible?

The last time I had such an issue was because I hadn't installed them when installing the OS of the machine... that being said, it was win95, so I have no idea.

Haha, that was fun. :P https://twitter.com/minetweeter_/status/606481421633482752

awesome!

Here there is a tweet-based chess robot: https://twitter.com/chess_robot

although your UI looks better

Darn! I had this awesome idea! Somebody else has done it already!

Oh well, might do it anyway :)

haha I thought the same! I made a quick check, and that account popped up

let me know if you'll build something

bright minds think alike ;)

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