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    Martin L. Buchanan
    last edited by Sep 5, 2024, 8:01 PM

    I have lived largely in Notepad++ and relied on it for many years, because it is a straightforward text editor and does not do weird things to my text.

    So just created a new UTF-8 text file, was typing in text, and typed >= which changed to display what looks like the Unicode character for greater than or equal (≥ (U+2265)). The same behavior occurred even if I typed >, a space, and then =, then removed the space.

    When I copied that apparent single character out of my file and pasted it in a Unicode character finder on the web to identify the character, it came back as the vanilla >= that I wanted in the first place.

    Looked at Preferences and at the documentation and have no explanation for this, what now appears to be a display issue, my text not appearing as what it is. In computing you more often want >= to appear as such.

    Thank you for any solutions or thoughts about this,

    Martin L Buchanan
    Laramie, WY, USA

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      Terry R @Martin L. Buchanan
      last edited by Sep 5, 2024, 8:13 PM

      @Martin-L-Buchanan said in Unexpected text display change for >=:

      it came back as the vanilla >= that I wanted in the first place.

      My immediate thoughts would be to look at your Style Configurator settings. perhaps paste a copy of that here.

      Maybe a combination of Language, Style, which theme and font used might have contributed to this display.

      Terry

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        Alan Kilborn @Martin L. Buchanan
        last edited by Alan Kilborn Sep 5, 2024, 8:24 PM Sep 5, 2024, 8:23 PM

        @Martin-L-Buchanan

        You probably have a font selected that has support for ligatures.
        And you may have Direct Write turned on in the Preferences (not sure about this, though; I’m AFK).

        Note: Your data hasn’t changed, just what it looks like has changed. This is confirmed by when you copy and paste that data to another source, and you get 2 characters instead of 1.

        In computing you more often want >= to appear as such

        Disagree.
        Try typing ! and then = right next to it … and now you are living in a better world.

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          BrBill @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by Jul 1, 2025, 10:06 PM

          @Alan-Kilborn I want to turn this off too. It also displays != as ≠. Does anyone know?

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            PeterJones @BrBill
            last edited by PeterJones Jul 1, 2025, 10:44 PM Jul 1, 2025, 10:27 PM

            @BrBill said in Unexpected text display change for >=:

            @Alan-Kilborn I want to turn this off too. It also displays != as ≠. Does anyone know?

            You didn’t need to post a second time with the same question 15 minutes after your first post here.

            Besides, one answer in the post you were replying to – turning off DirectWrite, which is now setting it to GDI (most compatible) as of a few versions ago – would have worked for you if you’d tried it.

            Or, as I explain here, pick a font that doesn’t have the ligature feature.

            Either works.

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