microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Enhanced Font Preview in Settings > Appearance
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Description
# Description of the new feature/enhancement
The current font preview in Settings > Appearance is helpful. However, it would be even better if it included additional lines of text with characters that some fonts render differently, such as ==, ===, !=, !==. This would make it easier to choose a font that supports specific ligatures without having to apply the font and manually check these characters in the profile.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the Settings > Appearance font preview entry point and trace how its sample text is defined and rendered. Add preview lines containing ligature-sensitive characters such as ==, ===, !=, and !==, then verify that the samples appear correctly when choosing fonts.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100