Over the past two years, I have regularly come across articles and libraries that attempt to improve how underline text decorations are rendered on the web. The same problem exist on Android: underline text decorations cross descenders. Compare how Android draws underlined text (top) and how it could be drawn instead (bottom): Which do you prefer?While I wholeheartedly approve of these efforts, I
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