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[Bug 894288] Re: [8 new] Characters ▶▼▷◢←↑↓→ not present in Ubuntu Mono

 

** Project changed: ubuntu-font-family => fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  [8 new] Characters ▶▼▷◢←↑↓→ not present in Ubuntu Mono

Status in fonts-ubuntu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I use the Ubuntu font for all programming activities.

  In OSX, if these characters are in some line, the line height will
  grow to make room for them. Thus, different lines will have different
  heights, which looks strange (see attached screenshot left side). Even
  entering these characters in the textbox on this very website made the
  line height grow beyond the bounds of the textbox.

  In Windows, the characters are shrunk to fit the line height. However,
  this shrinks different characters to different degrees, so the
  triangles end up having different sizes. (see attached screenshot
  right side)

  Most prominently, these characters are used in the popular TagBar
  plugin for Vim as disclosure triangles.

  The left side of the attached screen shot shows a section of a MacVim
  buffer with the characters in question. You can see how the characters
  distort the line heights. The right side shows a Visual Studio buffer
  where you can see how the characters are shrunk to different degrees.

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