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by timfi 1763 days ago
Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of "monospace" fonts don't actually use the same character width for all characters... What makes it even worse is that the "monospace" font used by GitHub is one of those. It screws me over from time to time as I like to format things nicely and use a lot of unicode...

I think I will need to add some images to the readme as well, just make it looks less wonky. :(
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SahAssar 1763 days ago
Github uses a system font stack, this is the one for code blocks: `ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,SF Mono,Menlo,Consolas,Liberation Mono,monospace`.

I don't know if there are better monospace ones builtin on windows 10 that they could add to the stack.

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timfi 1763 days ago
Not to get snarky (and certainly not at you, thanks for the info ;) ) but Microsoft owns Windows 10 as well as GitHub. If anyone could add a better default monospace font to the mix it would be them... :D
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