This is true, but terminals tend to be used with monospace fonts that aren't very typographically complex.
That said there may? be languages other than English where ligatures are more than decorative, and would be more useful to have in a terminal.
That said there may? be languages other than English where ligatures are more than decorative, and would be more useful to have in a terminal.
They could start by not mimicking 50+ year old hardware terminals down to arcane (and performance killing) details, supporting better and more powerful autocomplete and similar interactions, inline images, full colors, and so on...