After a couple of years I have to use a Windows machine again and noticed that geany does not support programming ligatures, which are supported by fonts like Fira Code or Cascadia Code.
Ligatures **do work** on Linux, though: 
I first checked the Scintilla version, but it is new enough to support this, also in the Geany Windows-Version.
After a bit of research, I came across the same issue reported for Notepad++: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287#issuecomm...
The linked comment cites the [Scintilla docs](https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETTECHNOLOGY), stating that `SCI_SETTECHNOLOGY(int technology)` can be set to `SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE` for Windows Vista or later.
I strongly assume that this would also resolve the issue for Geany.
Is there any dev regularly running a Windows build? I would of course like to test this, but I'd have to set up a cross-compiling environment or something. So I would be very happy if someone here would be in a comfortable position to test this.