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Proposal to eliminate garbled characters on the WELL
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metawell 363: Proposal to eliminate garbled characters on the WELL
#42 of 69: a-circumflex-euro-ligature-oe-I-a-circumflex-TM-m sure-a-circumflex-euro-? (keitht) Wed 10 Nov 2021 (05:16 AM)

There is a 4) that isn't on the list, but probably should be, line
breaks. Like 3) we could just ignore it, it isn't new and we can
cause trouble with it right now. I know there has been a lot of work
done on this. The goal seems to have been to make Engaged look like
an 80 line terminal for consistency with pico. Nothing wrong with
that but I think we should consider a more modern approach. CSS has
evolved and can do very powerful things. And browsers are *very*
good at breaking lines nicely, the rest of the world's web text
reflows perfectly when the window size is varied. I think a newer
web page layout with the same width we have but with browser text
wrapping would be best. Stop inserting them in the byte stream and
risking character corruption. This one is easy to prototype, maybe I
will.

test 2189: \😂\😂\😂
 #3 of 4: Keith Thomas (keitht) Thu 02 Dec 2021 (05:47 PM)

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***Above is original Engaged output with line breaks. Added style tag in head to set width. Line breaks removed below, added long url and string of emojis. Reduce window width to see reflow.***

There is a 4) that isn't on the list, but probably should be, line breaks. Like 3) we could just ignore it, it isn't new and we can cause trouble with it right now. I know there has been a lot of work done on this. The goal seems to have been to make Engaged look like an 80 line terminal for consistency with pico. Nothing wrong with that but I think we should consider a more modern approach. CSS has evolved and can do very powerful things.  https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/jan-6th-committee-finds-trump-white-house-metadata-on-letter-pressing-georgia-on-election-127874117652And browsers are *very* good at breaking lines nicely, the rest of the world's web text reflows perfectly when the window size is varied. I think a newer web page layout with the same width we have but with browser text wrapping would be best. Stop inserting them in the byte stream and risking character corruption. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚This one is easy to prototype, maybe I will.