Misaligned HTML and badly formed HTML about wttr.in

[benlesh]

Looking at Unifont, it might be infeasible to use it as a web font. The TTF file is about 12MB. You can probably use a conversion tool that extracts out the characters you need, however.

Either way, the problem is definitely the font. Find the right monospaced web font and you'll solve the issue.

[benlesh]

It seems to be that the unicode characters, such as "degree" and the arrow-type characters don't keep the monospaced widths, and therefor alter the alignment.

[benlesh]

Switching the font to GNU Unifont solves the misalignment issues. You'll need to use a @font-face directive in CSS in order to do so, but the result looks much better:

[Artanicus]

For OS X the fix was indeed using Menlo and for Linux the fix was using DejaVu Sans Mono font-family. Letting it fall back to monospace makes everything unpredictable with so many bad monospace fonts around. DejaVu Sans Mono also fixed the unicode misalignment issue for ChromeOS.

I've seen Consolas recommended for Windows but cannot confirm as I don't have Windows to test with.

[chubin]

It should work better in Mac OS X / iOS (and probably Windows) now (see #68).
Please test and report, if there are still problems with these and other problems.
As far as I see, there are still problems with Android at least.

[Artanicus]

So, aftermath of #68 is that we have OS provided good monospace fonts for the following:

• Mac OS X & iOS: Menlo
• Linux & ChromeOS: DejaVu Sans Mono
• There's several contenders for the best Windows font.
• The biggest remaining issue is Android. Next step is to figure out what monospace fonts does vanilla Android ship with, and hopefully one of them is good.

[chubin]

How it looks like in iOS now:

[chubin]

It looks really ugly in windows:

https://twitter.com/Noooooovik/status/832190050297376768

@Artanicus @Blesh If you have any ideas what fonts could be tried on Windows please give your suggestions

[Nimja]

Hmm.. Apparently nobody cares anymore?

[chubin]

@Nimja Actually the users do care, but the problem is still there. Do you have any idea about the font?

[Nimja]

I'm closing this for now, ticket has been open for 3.5 years ;)