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That looks so wrong. Why would they do this?
by sspiff 3y ago
That looks so wrong. Why would they do this?
- fweimer 3y agoI suspect is just a bug: the ligature tables were copied from the regular variant, and perhaps no one noticed for some reason. Maybe the assumption was that the renderer would turn of ligature processing in monospace mode at the time, and the reference renderer did that?
- bityard 3y agoI can't find any examples now, but I'm positive that there have been "coding" fonts which do this that have hit the front page of HN. Highlighted as a feature in the screenshots, even. Another example of form over function, to the utter detriment of function, IMHO.
- fweimer 3y agoPerhaps Fira Code? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764527 But I think it's different: it uses double-width characters for two-character ligatures, so this doesn't break alignment.
- michaelcampbell 3y agoIt's truly amazing that people can like different things, no?