Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY))

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 14:33:24 -0400
> 
> On 20/05/2020 14.01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> But regardless, what's the issue with ⇒?
> > 
> > The issue with ⟹ is that the stem doesn't seem to be splittable into 2
> > parts, whereas "==" are two characters.
> 
> Oh, I see the worry, but I don't think it's a problem — it's a feature to 
> split the stem into two parts :)

Then I guess we have very different views of what is a "feature".  To
me, this looks like a terrible kludge.

> In a monospace font, it should look obvious what's happening, since ⟹ will 
> occupy three columns.

Here it occupies only two.