I’m working on a Discord bot using the discord.py library and encountered an issue where the printed console output is correct, but the output in the Discord embed is not displaying as expected - the String width is not correct. Here is the relevant part of my code: if in_database: searched_strings: list[str] = ["PLACEHOLDER_MONDAY", "PLACEHOLDER_TUESDAY", "PLACEHOLDER_WEDNESDAY", "PLACEHOLDER_THURSDAY", "PLACEHOLDER_FRIDAY", "PLACEHOLDER_SATURDAY", "PLACEHOLDER_SUNDAY"] days: list[str] = await translate_m(interaction.guild_id, searched_strings) for row in in_database: day: str = f"- **{days[row[0] - 1]}**:".ljust(50, ' ') work_hours += day + f"`{row[1]}`\n" print(work_hours) translations[2] = translations[2].replace("[work_hours]", work_hours) embed: Embed = Embed(description="\n".join(translations[:-1]), color=0xEA2027) await channel.send(embed=embed) The correct console output: The incorrectly formatted discord embed: So my question is, how can I fix that? I heard about using a Codebox in discord to use it, but I'm not a fan of the idea to put all content here inside a Codebox - it's just ugly. Continue reading...
