UI Issue: Invisible Separator Character

I’ve encountered a minor but noticeable UI issue in the FreedomBox interface.

The words in the tags below the app icons in the English interface are separated using a Katakana middle dot (Unicode U+30FB). However, on systems without Japanese or Chinese character support (like my Linux installation), this character is not displayed, resulting in words being separated by a missing character.

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To ensure better visibility across different systems and configurations, I suggest replacing the Katakana middle dot with a more universally supported character. Some options could be:

  1. Middle Dot (U+00B7): ·
  2. Interpunct (U+2027): ‧
  3. Bullet (U+2022): •
  4. Hyphen-Minus (U+002D): -

These characters are more likely to be included in standard fonts and should display correctly on a wider range of systems.

Oops, didn’t intend to require users to have CJK fonts installed. Thanks for the report.I posted a fix.

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