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emilfihlman
on Sept 9, 2019
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String Lengths in Unicode
You are not thinking outside of your web development box.
Embedded systems care deeply and know exactly display sizes.
wongarsu
on Sept 9, 2019
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Embedded systems increasingly have screens with real pixels and support for weird languages. At least they are low-level that "give me the width and height of that string" is actually an achievable task.
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Embedded systems care deeply and know exactly display sizes.