Comments on: Firefox Ligature Bug Followup

By: Joachim Breitner

Joachim Breitner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another observervation is that the bug also appears in the galeon browser…

BTW the word “fix” looks really cool this way…

By: michele

michele — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for pointing this bug out James, I’ve missed the your first post, this was really bugging me.

Yep, the word “fix” looks cool but I prefer it now that I’ve switched to Bitstream Vera (thanks for providing a test case Joachim).

By: Denis Jacquerye

Denis Jacquerye — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The ligatures could also be disabled in free fonts like DejaVu fonts in distribs that display the bug. I think we even made such a release a few months back because of this bug.

Bitstream Vera does contain the ‘fi’ and ‘fl’ ligatures but isn’t OpenType so Pango does not perform the substitutions. If Pango starts doing so…

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Denis: yeah, I noticed that the Vera font contained a few ligature glyphs (although not as many as Deja Vu) while investigating the problem, but did not have the OpenType tables necessary for them to be used by Pango.

I’d prefer not to modify the fonts directly, since it affects how documents using that font display. It would be a lot nicer if the pango rendering code in Firefox was fixed …