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Re:How Stdbuf Works by Arnavion on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:45PM (#33564908)
>Why would they use that font for displaying C code?

Using ligature fonts for programming became popular a few years ago. As in some people even use them in their editors.

Re:How Stdbuf Works by bspammer on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:51PM (#33564998)
Which is totally fine on their own machine, but using a webfont to force ligatures on anyone viewing their website is just confusing as a reader.
Re:How Stdbuf Works by Arnavion on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:05PM (#33565199)
No, I get it. I don't use them either because I find them confusing. I'm just telling you you missed out on what was a quite popular trend from a few years ago.
Re:How Stdbuf Works by remram on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:48PM (#33565828)
Lately my Firefox has been showing a ligature for "fi" in monospace code blocks, showing those two characters in the width of a single character. On every website with code blocks. It is mildly infuriating and I don't understand it.
Re:How Stdbuf Works by Arnavion on Friday November 11, 2022 @07:01PM (#33568431)
Right-click the ligature text -> Inpsect. In the Inspector, on the right there is a tab called "Fonts" (to the right of "Rules", "Layout", etc). That will show you what font(s) Firefox used to render all the text in the selected element.
Re:How Stdbuf Works by remram on Friday November 11, 2022 @09:52PM (#33569496)
I used Stylus to force ligatures off at some point, it mostly worked but caused some other issues.