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Appreciate this. Can you explain why there appear to be English-looking letters used for terms but with alternate Unicode versions? Makes everything look jumbly but I'm sure there's a good reason.


Are you talking about the MathJax rendering used for instruction names?


False alarm. I think it's a font rendering problem on Safari. When I tried Chrome and Firefox it didn't appear. For example, under "External Types" at https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/syntax/types.html#external... you see this grammar rule:

    externtype ::= func functype | table tabletype | mem memtype | global globaltype
  
On Safari, the tokens fun, table, men, and global render with weird font baselines on some letters: c, o, e and a are raised a few points higher than they should be. I just figured these were odd substitutions for ASCII characters from further in the Unicode alphabet, maybe to avoid collisions with other reserved token names or something (vamping here because it was all I could think of). Sorry about that.


I mean, it is definitely a problem. https://pasteboard.co/xzgTi4TxK326.jpg


SEE I’M NOT INSANE!




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