UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 13/08/2026 12:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/12/2026 1:31 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> On 13/08/2026 7:48 AM, Walter Bright 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.
>>
>> You don't have to.
>>
>> Change your font, they already offer this (I've used a popular one do 
>> that).
> 
> 
> So they stretch out ≠ to be two characters wide? Code editors tend to 
> use monospace fonts.

JetBrains Mono, a MonoSpace font does make it two characters.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/#ligatures