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This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

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Feature Request: Add support for APL programming language (and other languages that use various Unicode math symbols) #553

Open kamekku14 opened 2 years ago

kamekku14 commented 2 years ago

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Sure, not all monospace fonts have the support for APL (and other languages that use a few Unicode mathematical symbols for programming), so I wonder if Cascadia Code should support it? It has been discussed in some font repos (Ref: [1] [2] [3]), and I bet if programmers really wanted use this sometime in the future.

aaronbell commented 2 years ago

Thanks! That's quite a few characters :). I'll add it to the backlog.

fl3pp commented 2 years ago

I'd argue for math symbols independently of APL, e.g. I sometimes write simple math into text files for note-taking. Although it does work (because the font uses a fallback AFAIK), it sometimes looks really bad compared to other fonts, which is why I am currently merging the missing symbols from other fonts manually. It would be nice to get inbuilt support for that.

Examples for math symbols I frequently use and are missing from Cascadia include ∀ (U+2200), ⊂ (U+2282), or ± (U+00B1)