build vs serve

[NikosAlexandris]

Is there a difference between build and serve regarding font support, given no other than the default fonts are used ?

Details

I am facing an annoying issue in getting proper rendering of Unicode characters inside executable markdown code-blocks. Or, at least I think the problem is about fonts and Unicode characters. I have tried to explain it here :

• Same source, different build environment results to different output pawamoy/markdown-exec#45 (reply in thread)
• On force_ascii and support for Unicode characters olavolav/uniplot#32 (comment)

I have tried to re-build the documentation with and without installing Roboto fonts, disabling fonts, configuring locales and so on. I cannot understand the problem so I cannot fix it, yet. I have observed, I think, that doing locally mkdocs build isn't as good as mkdocs serve : the built artifact looks somewhat bad comparing to mkdocs serve, always viewing the output in a browser and specifically how executable code blocks are rendered.

Hence, my question is : is there a difference between build and serve regarding fonts, Unicode support, locales, the width of the console ?

[NikosAlexandris]

I have observed, I think, that doing locally mkdocs build isn't as good as mkdocs serve : the built artifact looks somewhat bad comparing to mkdocs serve, always viewing the output in a browser and specifically how executable code blocks are rendered.

Hmm, I re-built the documentation and I have to correct my previous statement as now it all looks fine, like both outputs from build and serve look fine.