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Do modern day fonts even support automatic ligatures? How does that work? Or are there Unicode symbols for them?
Both! Unicode has some support for as-is ligatures. For example
fiis U+FB01.Modern fonts can also use self-defined ligatures. That's how fonts like https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/
So my plan is (eventually) to add in ligatures where Unicode has defined them - and automatically replace typed text with self-defined ligatures where it doesn't.