Life In 19x19

I like to use the tilde to show approximation, guesstimation, etc. A lot of other people do too. But the tilde comes out like this in the forum: ~

This is what tildes usually look like:



Is there anyway that we could get the tilde to look like a tilde?

They look the same to me. But I don't know if that would be a browser difference in default font or something like my os not having the font l19 would otherwise use.

They both look the same to me (except one is enormous). I don't know how the fonts work, but maybe it is something on your end?

Can you post a screenshot?

They're the same, just different fonts. You simply can't say that any character or letter looks "wrong" in any font; it's just that they're part of that font.

Ah, ok. I feel sheepish.

I assumed everyone had this problem. It looks like an en-dash on my browser. When I expanded the font to take a better screen shot, I realized that it is a tilde, it's just not visible at the default font size.

I attached two screenshots, but they're making my eyes bleed. Is there any way to hide the attachments?

[mod edit=Chew]Hid them by placing them inline then surrounding them with hide tags.[/mod edit]

Ah, that makes sense. Indeed, if the tilde really looked like an en-dash, I would be comfortable saying it looked wrong and is a bad font.

Weird... I am also running Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) and tilde looks fine for me. Do you have msttcorefonts installed?

fwiffo wrote:Weird... I am also running Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) and tilde looks fine for me. Do you have msttcorefonts installed?

It's already the newest version. I tried changing Chrome's default sans-serif font, but that doesn't do anything; and anyway, I can see tildes fine on other pages which are using sans-serif fonts, just not L19. Curiouser and curiouser. But if I'm the only one who's having this problem, it's not really the end of the world.

The only thing I can think is that your anti-aliasing or hinting settings are screwing up the font rendering. I suggest playing around with those.