2011/9/12 Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> > 12.9.2011 18:19, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > Yes, but some web browsers like Firefox automatically apply an `fl' >> ligature... >> >> Well, not just Firefox, because Chrome is now doing the same thing for >> this message ! >> > > Can you give more details? I just checked that my Chrome (Win 7) is > up-to-date and tested with a simple document, and it did not apply any > ligatures (for fi or fl). As far as I know, Firefox has applied ligatures > for some time _but_ only for some font face and size combinations by default > and controllable by the CSS property text-rendering. I still think it was a > bad move to start applying ligatures by default on the web where none were > applied so far. >
I see those ligatures applied in Chrome v.13.0.782.220 over Windows 7 SP1 French, just when reading this email in Gmail which renders it with the stock Arial font of Windows (no webfont used). My locale preferences in the browser and in my Gmail profile are first in French (France), then English (US). Zoom in, you'll see that these ligatures are rendered by default. Still you can select the individual letters in "fi" or "fl" or "ffi" or "ffl", copy-pasting to another document from the browser generates 2 characters, and a DOM inspection of the HTML document with the Developers tools shows that there are affectively two letters in the HTML document (and no ZWJ in the middle). May be you have a different (German?) locale, for which Chrome does not perform these ligatures by default. -- Philippe.
