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Quick text-processing question. It’s not necessarily related to programming, but this is the best place I figured I should go.
Rate down to tell me this kind of question is not welcome here. (Though, I really like my one little reputation point.)
Anyways, how can I encode text so that two characters get rendered in the same charspace?
NOTE: this is for plain-text — nothing particularly complex.
The best you can do is put a backspace character between the two. However the outcome isn’t likely to be useful to you, it will depend on what software is being used to display the text. The most likely is that the backspace will be ignored or shown as some generic “unavailable” glyph. The second most likely is that the second character will completely erase the first. You’d have to be very lucky for the two characters to be displayed one over the other in the same space.