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The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.” (lemmy.world)
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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To unjerk, as it were, it was a thing. So on old systems they'd do stuff like represent æøå with the same code points as {|}. Curly brace languages must have looked pretty weird back then:)

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

It still is a thing in some fonts: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal

Took me a while to work out what they were called. Font rendering is hard :(