So in between Microsoft's devs calling a pixel shader that looks up glyphs a "doctoral thesis project" an hour ago, and right now, @mmozeiko just wrote the actual shader and posted it:https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/c7cd68ba0733a0d9e4f0a97691a50d39 …
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Replying to @cmuratori @mmozeiko
the one thing this is missing is support for ligatures and double width characters
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Don't mind me, I have no insight here… but what is the value of ligatures in a monospace setting? I've been soured against them partly because they disrupt some of my sanity checks. Maybe I just don't have any idea how good it could be?
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There's no actual value to them, nor are they hard to implement. They are used for fancy programming syntax, like to put a not-equals sign instead of !=. The only "value" they have is allowing lazy developers to try to claim that text is hard "because of ligatures".
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Of those three, Microsoft Terminal actually only supports one (accessibility), and I don't know if it does it properly. They don't support RTL at all, and their combining characters code is buggy.
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