UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

[Dlighted]

On Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 07:20:08 UTC, Dlighted wrote:
> Today a monospace font is often not actually monospaced. The 
> font determines the width of each letter. And it can use an 
> opentype ligature glyph that is simply two columns wide. It 
> also means that it does not break up the ligature when it 
> reaches the end of the screen but puts the whole operator >= on 
> the next line when visual line wrapping is enabled. I checked 
> in the Kate text editor with Fira Code just now.
I have to correct myself. Wrapping of ligatures is broken in Kate.
I tried a string like _________________>= and it displayed 
nothing at the end of the line and only the right half of the 
ligature in the next line.