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Weird unicode characters rendering outside of line-height
See original GitHub issuebecause of the font chosen, it is quite easy to mess up a chat in Converse using symbols like (at least on quite some OS and browsers):
yyyyyyyyyy
yyyyyyyyy
sdfsdfdsfsdfsdf
sdfsdfdsfsdfsdf
e.g.Android, Chrome (Samsung, latest firmware update):
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Should now be fixed after this commit: https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/commit/983d5ea09c80092f0f49db1c9c31ab7b14949a30
As seen in the original comment code block, Github prevents the the text from making too much of a mess via the overflow css property. That could be a possible solution to prevent such a message from messing up the chat too much.