Thanks all for the explanations. It is indeed a font problem solved by a bit of css. In this case there's no need to use a monospace font. I am disillusioned to discover that so many font creators implement them imperfectly. This is almost as bad as when I discovered that the BBC is not the Voice of G-d. :)
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]>wrote: > On 7 Oct 2012, at 08:37, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > > 2012-10-07 8:38, Bill Poser wrote: > > > >> I have a web page that writes into an HTML5 textarea via the javascript > >> dom interface. U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE is incorrectly rendered as a > >> spacing low line in both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome > > > > The issue is not limited to textareas but appears in normal text too, > when the font is set to Courier New. You can also see the problem in > Microsoft Word, for example, when using that font. The point is that this > is a font problem, and you can see it in textareas because they typically > have Courier New as the default font. > > There's always Everson Mono. :-) > > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/emono > > > >
