SUMMARY After upgrading to Konsole 22.12.0, font ligatures are not rendered anymore. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Upgrade to Konsole 22.12.0 OBSERVED RESULT Font ligatures are not rendered anymore. EXPECTED RESULT Font ligatures should be rendered, or an option should be provided to toggle this option. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.0.12-arch1-1 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 461530 mentioned that "ligatures will be disabled by default, but there is an option to enable them". However, I cannot find this option in Konsole settings or profile settings. This affects Yakuake as well.
I'm experiencing the same issue. I have also tried other terminal emulators to test if they're experiencing the same issues, but the other ones seem to work fine with font ligatures.
Same issue. Besides, the ligature works at the font setting window of Konsole. Picture: https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=15452
To enable ligatures in 22.12: In "Edit profile" dialog, select page "Appearance" and then tab "Complex Text Layout" Enable "Word mode" and "ASCII characters". Make sure to "Use the same attributes for whole word" is disabled.
*** Bug 462940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I wonder whether it is possible to make enabling font ligatures more discoverable, since: (1) it is changed to be disabled by default, meaning that users will need to find the option to enable it, (2) the option to enable ligatures ("Word mode") do not appear to suggest that it control the rendering of ligatures, and (3) several options under "Word mode" controls how ligatures are rendered, and only a specific combination of options will restore ligature rendering to the pre-22.12 behavior.