Bug 73564 - en dash & em have same width
Summary: en dash & em have same width
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: DejaVu
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Mono Sans (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium major
Assignee: Deja Vu bugs
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Reported: 2014-01-13 16:36 UTC by Stefan Knorr (astron)
Modified: 2014-01-13 16:40 UTC (History)
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Comparison of DejaVu Sans Mono, Droid Sans Mono & FreeSerif dashes. (9.06 KB, image/png)
2014-01-13 16:36 UTC, Stefan Knorr (astron) 		Details
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Description Stefan Knorr (astron) 2014-01-13 16:36:51 UTC 
Created attachment 91958 [details]
Comparison of DejaVu Sans Mono, Droid Sans Mono & FreeSerif dashes.

For some reason, in DejaVu Sans Mono, the em dash (U+2014) and the en dash (U+2014) have the same width -- the maximum character width of DejaVu. They are also not as wide as the "m" or "n" characters, respectively.

Other monospace fonts solve this better, such as e.g. Source Code Pro or Droid Sans Mono. (The included FreeSerif comparison is a bit of an accident, but maybe shows how a "normal" behaves.)

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