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Why do people use Unicode characters in the terminal, documentation, etc. and make everything look like shit when ASCII already aligns everything perfectly?
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To be fair trying to draw diagrams on a terminal is retarded were not in the 90s anymore
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use a better font
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That was your own conscious choice to use a terminal that does not force every character to have the same width and does not use a large Unicode monospace font for most of the characters.

Windows Terminal (using Cascadia Mono as its font) does not have this problem at all.
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Given the contents of that diagram, I'm surprised they don't generate documentation with Rust-based ASCII-to-vector parser feeding events to Java Spring Boot microservice, generating raw LaTeX source, compiled inside a Kubernetes sidecar, fed into Agfa Apogee Pre-press server inside Windows NT 4.0 VM, generating a 500 MB PDF, served by a WebAssembly function that rasterizes it on a user's device.
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Because its the only way LLMs can write diagrams and people will just copy them
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Isn't mermaid made for that?
You get both a very small readme.md file and a pretty graph.
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You can tell a lot from a README file. If the solution to the Unicode fucktardery is "use another font", you know you're dealing with a moron.

They'll inevitably use glyphs that don't exist in Terminus and whatever fallback it'll have to use, will always look like shit.

It's also a litmus test for tranny code.

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