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by nwallin 2212 days ago
It's a very unusual "character" as it can sometimes be rendered very, very wide- the same width as maybe 20 or so "normal" characters. (whatever "normal" means. The more I learn about unicode...) The same width as if you had typed it out in a sentence.

It breaks a lot of UIs that use character count as a proxy for string width.