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Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

This is a practical web development tip describing why ASCII diagrams rendered in a pre tag can become misaligned on Android due to font fallback behavior. It guides using a locally hosted Noto Sans Mono font via @font-face to ensure consistent box-drawing glyph widths across platforms, with code samples demonstrating the approach.

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