[Pkg-shadow-devel] Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

[nick black]

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues left as an exercise for the reader:
> Quoting nick black (2024-11-23 08:48:10)
> > You now have glyphs which occupy more than one column. Are your
> > columnar/tabular programs prepared for that? ﷽𒁭𒐫i
> 
> xfce-terminal renders this like this: https://mister-muffin.de/p/4o2v.png

more correctly, it renders it like that when using your font,
with its current font rendering engine. very little can be
assumed here. thankfully, presentation shouldn't be that big of
a deal outside of tabular UIs.

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you need first invent a universe.
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