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Missing `=` equal sign when using ligature font
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RESOLVED: INVALID
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Xfce4-terminal
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Description Andreas Linz 2015-12-23 20:59:51 CET
Created attachment 6568 
Terminal screenshot using FiraCode in font size 11pt.

Equal signs aren't displayed when I use FiraCode (https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode) as terminal font, regardless of the font-size.
Other fonts work fine.
The problem might be related to the ligatures in FiraCode that are built from an equal sign plus one or more additional symbols, g.e. `=>`.

Update: The left angle bracket `<` is also missing, interestingly the `>` is displayed, even in combinations like `->`.

System information:
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xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 (Xfce 4.12)
Linux elitebook 4.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 27 08:13:28 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Comment 1 Andreas Linz 2015-12-23 21:00:40 CET
Created attachment 6569 
Terminal screenshot using FiraMono in font size 11pt.
Comment 2 Igor editbugs 2016-07-27 17:33:01 CEST
The github page clearly says that the font is not supported by a number of terminal emulators, xfce4-terminal among them: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#terminal-support
Based on the doesn't work list, I suppose the reason is that vte is not supporting it.
Comment 3 Andreas Linz 2016-07-27 17:41:08 CEST
@Igor:
The info was added two months after I opened the bug report, commit: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/commit/313f65ebb63c3cd1bc71a45dc6f1a133f11225ae

Nonetheless, I'm not using XFCE or the XFCE terminal anymore, so you can close the bug if you like.
Comment 4 Igor editbugs 2016-07-27 17:51:17 CEST
Andreas, thanks for the update!
I will close the bug as I really think it's related to underlying vte terminal widget, not to the terminal itself.

However, xfce4-terminal has made a big progress since 0.6.3, being ported to gtk3/vte3 and stuff, so you are greatly encouraged to return to it if you are using a terminal app :)
Comment 5 Andreas Linz 2016-07-27 17:52:23 CEST
Great, I will give it a try!
Comment 6 Igor editbugs 2016-07-27 17:55:04 CEST
The only thing I need to mention that it's only available from git now, but I'm thinking about releasing a dev release soon... not sure if the distributions will adopt it.

Bug #12373

Reported by:
Andreas Linz
Reported on: 2015-12-23
Last modified on: 2016-07-27

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