UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at qfbox.info
Wed Aug 12 22:44:17 UTC 2026


On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 12:48:02PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/12/2026 4:52 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> > Not a reason not to do it, just a reason why I predict it will not
> > happen anytime soon in D.
> 
> I suppose one could adapt their code editor to display != as ≠, but
> then aligned columns may not work well.

Coding fonts with ligatures for those things generally space the
combined glyph as double-width, so it doesn't throw off the alignment.


T

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