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++:
notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#2287 (comment)

The linked comment cites the Scintilla docs, 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.

—
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.