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Re:Dev Fonts by d3nj4l on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:47AM (#25159928)
The ligaturized -> is two characters wide and is pretty easy to tell apart.
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Re:Dev Fonts by kps on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#25160729)
So it looks like U+27F6 ⟶ rather than U+2192 →?
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Re:Dev Fonts by saurik on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:53AM (#25160957)
Sure, but in a monospaced font both of those arrows would have to fit into the same small box, so 27F6 might be the full width while 2192 would be some partial width, while a -> ligature would be two widths.
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