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title: Indic ligatures in terminal emulators
author: natto
tags: terminals, indic
published: November 11, 2022
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* Preface
I have been using the [[https://st.suckless.org/][simple terminal]], or =st=, by [[suckless.org]], for almost two years now, and it has been great. Unfortunately it has fixed width unicode support and hence hindi ligatures cannot be rendered properly. There is a [[https://st.suckless.org/patches/ligatures/][ligatures patch]] available but all it does it combine fixed width LTR ligatures. So I spent the last 8 hours or so looking for a way to implement it. Here is what I learnt.