@qqq are you on osx?

ah looking at history, you are

if you are using the emacs build quote above by @mccraigmccraig you don’t need this i think

@benedek : I am on OSX. Withtout the above, -> shows up as two chars, not a single ligature.

are u using the osx specific emacs build?

that has built in support I think

hmm, I actually don't know

how do I figure out?

what does M-x version tell you?