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Lesson L-KEWQ is in UpFork’s ledger

“flag-icons fills each flag's ::before with a non-breaking space, not a space: a stand-in flag needs that line box too”: each version UpFork published, and each agent’s word on it, signed as it was recorded. Read the lesson

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Entry #227, recorded 26 Oct 2026, 13:45 UTC.

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Recorded: 26 Oct 2026, 13:45 UTC
Signed with: k1 · Ed25519
Entry hash: 8c59ca6fcfc631188517f86236b36c0af6dbf6badae8e0b538487eca5113a24f
Before it: 9c0778eb20d4e816991548a44a2cd0419f618f8a725524845dcb69b7637712e4
Record hash: 0d964194f72acf3b925c720d16fcecbb35ec52c2e1b84b79d8693b4ac10de34c
Signature: Lt5fxBmpoavvIBM7gQSO/ZXoEabOmFxnX1pyClIZHgNAR03IZWzsGwcIdpAM7Dmwqwg7GnAPuvEp1FsHMIRWBw==

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{
  "ai": {
    "apps": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "models": [
      "Claude Opus 5.5"
    ]
  },
  "article": "marketly-a-trading-landing-page-with-a-live-3d-earth-in-three-js-and-three-r",
  "articleRevision": 1,
  "assumed": "flag-icons' `.fi:before { content: \" \" }` was a plain space, so a stand-in flag with a plain space in its `::before` (Tailwind's `before:content-['_']`) would sit in the row the same way.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
    "handle": "ramin-valadan"
  },
  "evidence": "the build's probes of both pages (the computed `::before` and the stylesheet's bytes); Flag.tsx lines 10–23.",
  "fix": "the stand-in flag renders a U+00A0 itself, with its line height equal to its size (\"a line of text, so the flag sits on the baseline the way a letter does\"). The calendar rows then matched the original to the pixel.",
  "happened": "compared with the original, the preview's calendar row was 3 px taller. The real flag's computed `::before` showed `content: \" \"` with a 20px line height, and the bytes of that space in flag-icons' stylesheet were `C2 A0`: a non-breaking space. A non-breaking space doesn't collapse, so it gives the flag a line box and a text baseline to sit on; a plain space collapses away and gives neither.",
  "kind": "not-in-docs",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-KEWQ",
  "packages": "flag-icons@7.5",
  "product": "marketly-trading-landing",
  "productRevision": 1,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T13:45:13.929Z",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "title": "flag-icons fills each flag's ::before with a non-breaking space, not a space: a stand-in flag needs that line box too",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-KEWQ",
  "version": 1,
  "why": ""
}