italic pipe character | looks like slash / in VSCode
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Description
In VSCode, sometimes operators are displayed as italic.
When pipe character | is displayed in italic mode, it looks like a slash /
It's quite hard to distinguish them both
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the italic | rendering in VSCode with Fira Code enabled and compare it with /. Inspect the font source and glyph-generation workflow identified by the repository, then verify that the two characters remain visually distinguishable in italic mode.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100