Thanks all for the explanations. It is indeed a font problem solved by a
bit of css. In this case there's no need to use a monospace font. I am
disillusioned to discover that so many font creators implement them
imperfectly. This is almost as bad as when I discovered that the BBC is not
the Voice of G-d. :)
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2012, at 08:37, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
> > 2012-10-07 8:38, Bill Poser wrote:
> >
> >> I have a web page that writes into an HTML5 textarea via the javascript
> >> dom interface. U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE is incorrectly rendered as a
> >> spacing low line in both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome
> >
> > The issue is not limited to textareas but appears in normal text too,
> when the font is set to Courier New. You can also see the problem in
> Microsoft Word, for example, when using that font. The point is that this
> is a font problem, and you can see it in textareas because they typically
> have Courier New as the default font.
>
> There's always Everson Mono. :-)
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/emono
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