> I saw the version now in Sid has the st ligature corrected. Great! > However, the others like ff, fl, ffi still give problems. They > give strange effects on web pages with justified text, when viewed > with Firefox. See for instance my own 'font and keyboard page': > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html. See what happens to words > like 'file', 'difficult', 'difference', 'Openoffice' if FreeSerif > is the display font (also when you try to select text in lines > containing such words). This is apparently a bug in Pango (not yet > reported in Debian, but it has been in Ubuntu: > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/37828). > Dejavu, in the meantime, has marked its Latin ligatures as > "discretionary". Until these problems are sorted out, I suggest > the Freefonts do the same.
I suggest a separate bug report for this. I thinked about making the ligatures discretionary yesterday while fixing the "st" ligature but a few tests with gedit did not convince me that this was completely needed (while it was obvious for "st"). )
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