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a="|:watch:️ :mobile phone: :mobile phone with arrow: :laptop: :keyboard: :desktop computer:        |"
b="|:printer: :computer mouse: :trackball: :joystick: :clamp: :computer disk: :floppy disk: :optical|"

both of these strings should be 98 characters, but when printing with a monospaced font (in my terminal) it shows b as being longer

terminal output when printing length of each string followed by string

This shouldn’t be an issue but I’m trying to draw a box around some text and this glitch causes the table to be misaligned. Is it possible that the font is not properly monospaced? I am using VS Code for the Web.

Thank you kindly for your time.

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Answers


  1. I was guessing that one of the chars in a is strange. We can see this if we print them:

    In [4]: for i, char in enumerate(a):
       ...:     print((i, char))
       ...:
    (0, '|')
    (1, ':')
    (2, 'w')
    (3, 'a')
    (4, 't')
    (5, 'c')
    (6, 'h')
    (7, ':')
    (8, '️')
    (9, ' ')
    (10, ':')
    (11, 'm')
    (12, 'o')
    (13, 'b')
    (14, 'i')
    (15, 'l')
    (16, 'e')
    (17, ' ')
    (18, 'p')
    (19, 'h')
    (20, 'o')
    (21, 'n')
    (22, 'e')
    (23, ':')
    (24, ' ')
    (25, ':')
    (26, 'm')
    (27, 'o')
    (28, 'b')
    (29, 'i')
    (30, 'l')
    (31, 'e')
    (32, ' ')
    (33, 'p')
    (34, 'h')
    (35, 'o')
    (36, 'n')
    (37, 'e')
    (38, ' ')
    (39, 'w')
    (40, 'i')
    (41, 't')
    (42, 'h')
    (43, ' ')
    (44, 'a')
    (45, 'r')
    (46, 'r')
    (47, 'o')
    (48, 'w')
    (49, ':')
    (50, ' ')
    (51, ':')
    (52, 'l')
    (53, 'a')
    (54, 'p')
    (55, 't')
    (56, 'o')
    (57, 'p')
    (58, ':')
    (59, ' ')
    (60, ':')
    (61, 'k')
    (62, 'e')
    (63, 'y')
    (64, 'b')
    (65, 'o')
    (66, 'a')
    (67, 'r')
    (68, 'd')
    (69, ':')
    (70, ' ')
    (71, ':')
    (72, 'd')
    (73, 'e')
    (74, 's')
    (75, 'k')
    (76, 't')
    (77, 'o')
    (78, 'p')
    (79, ' ')
    (80, 'c')
    (81, 'o')
    (82, 'm')
    (83, 'p')
    (84, 'u')
    (85, 't')
    (86, 'e')
    (87, 'r')
    (88, ':')
    (89, ' ')
    (90, ' ')
    (91, ' ')
    (92, ' ')
    (93, ' ')
    (94, ' ')
    (95, ' ')
    (96, ' ')
    (97, '|')
    

    So we can see that at index 8 there is some kind of "zero width" character.

    We can inspect the char to find its codepoint:

    In [5]: ord(a[8])
    Out[5]: 65039
    

    This appears to be Unicode "VARIATION SELECTOR-16": https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fe0f/index.htm

    Some kind of modifying character that has no printable representation of its own.

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  2. try to add one profit to a or copy this and try…

    a="|:watch:️ :mobile phone: :mobile phone with arrow: :laptop: :keyboard: :desktop computer:         |"
    b="|:printer: :computer mouse: :trackball: :joystick: :clamp: :computer disk: :floppy disk: :optical|"
    
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