Typing = followed by > in a TextBox field

[LaurentInSeattle]

... then the input is changed into an arrow character.

Same for various other combos (dash and >, and more)
Nothing special in this TextBox, styled by built-in FluentTheme, only given watermark.
Removing the watermark does not change anything.

How can I disable that 'feature' that, it seems, has been introduced recently ?

Thanks!

[stevemonaco]

These combined glyphs are called ligatures. You can turn this off with FontFeatures.

It seems intuitive to turn them off with -liga. However, after inspecting the Font Features using fontdrop.info for the Inter font supplied by Avalonia, it appears that the arrow ligatures are part of "contextual alternatives". So you need -calt (or calt with state of 0).

<TextBox FontFeatures="-calt" />

[LaurentInSeattle]

Thanks, that worked...

Still wondering which version of Avalonia introduced this...
And could not find the documentation for it...

[stevemonaco]

I have the same behavior going back to 11.0.0, so quite some time. The default for Inter is calt enabled when using fontdrop (assuming this is correct and is defined by the font's metadata), so any prior behavior was likely not correct.