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<p>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.</p>
<p>Ligatures <strong>do work</strong> on Linux, though:<br>
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<p>I first checked the Scintilla version, but it is new enough to support this, also in the Geany Windows-Version.</p>
<p>After a bit of research, I came across the same issue reported for Notepad++:<br>
<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="177299357" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287/hovercard?comment_id=344063850&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287#issuecomment-344063850">notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#2287 (comment)</a></p>
<p>The linked comment cites the <a href="https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETTECHNOLOGY" rel="nofollow">Scintilla docs</a>, stating that <code>SCI_SETTECHNOLOGY(int technology)</code> can be set to <code>SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE</code> for Windows Vista or later.</p>
<p>I strongly assume that this would also resolve the issue for Geany.</p>
<p>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.</p>

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