Switched from English to German. German UI design is very direct...

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[–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Don't other text editors do the same for German?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it's just your usual buttons:

    • BoldFett
    • ItalicKursiv
    • U͟n͟d͟e͟r͟l͟i͟n͟e͟d → U͟n͟t͟e͟r͟s͟t͟r͟i͟c͟h͟e͟n
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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

    oh, my. that third line is horrendous. that's what happens when the software (in this case, lemmy's md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser. trying to underline using unicode.. and failing, instead of just using css.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    Oh man, I just checked what it looks like in Firefox:

    The underline after the first character and ends one character after the last.

    I had written that comment in the Jerboa app (and fiddled with it to make it look reasonable):

    The underline starts and ends in the middle of the first/last character.


    when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser.

    And nope, in this case I added the Unicode for the underline myself. Well, I used this app. That passes straight through the MD→HTML conversion without being touched.
    And it actually is rendered by the browser, but yeah, by the browser's Unicode+font rendering, not the CSS engine. Or in case of Jerboa, by Android's Unicode+font rendering.
    Would certainly be nice, if these would look the same. 🫠

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago* (1 child)

    Truly a cursed way to underline a word, is there no better way to do it on Lemmy?

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

    Lemmy uses Markdown for storing/displaying comments, specifically the CommonMark flavor with some extensions, as documented here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

    And yeah, no, that doesn't have a way to underline,

    except

    maybe

    one

    of

    these
    here,

    depending on the Markdown implementation in the client. Some clients might also choose to underline the highlighting, that's normally 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤.

    Links may be underlined as well.

    Well, and then you've also got this thing, which is certainly a line under this text:


    On Lemmy, we also got strikethrough. Priorities, I guess. 🙃

    But yeah, no proper, consistent underlining in Markdown/Lemmy. 🥴

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