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		karlerss on March 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern PHP With monospaced fonts, as used in programming, the ligatures take up 2 or more "spaces", but the special characters only take up one space. Thus, they are quite easily distinguished, for me.

prophesi on March 27, 2022 [–]

Linters will also complain if you find rare unicode symbols in your codebase as well.

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