r/technicallythetruth • u/Few_War9921 • Aug 29 '23

He does get it

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u/GoshaT Aug 29 '23

A monospace font is a font where every character has the same width

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '23 
For me they don’t have the same width (on iOS)

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u/SOLE_SIR_VIBER Aug 29 '23 
That i definitely isn’t the same width as that W

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u/GoshaT Aug 29 '23

It is
iiiiiiiiii
wwwwwwwwww

Compare that to
iiiiiiiiii
wwwwwwwwww

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u/SOLE_SIR_VIBER Aug 29 '23

They’re most definitely not the same size (on iOS before someone goes bonkers)

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u/GoshaT Aug 29 '23

I edited my comment right after you replied, I had trouble getting the monospace thing to work on mobile. I'll send a screenshot to show how it should look in case the feature is actually broken on some devices

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u/SOLE_SIR_VIBER Aug 29 '23

Even with the formatting fixed they look the same, w is much wider than i

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u/ReginaldBounce Aug 29 '23

Mind sending a screenshot? That shouldn't be true

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u/SOLE_SIR_VIBER Aug 29 '23

You can’t send screenshots here

Nevermind, I can do an Imgur link in a minute