12/09/2011 20:29, Philippe Verdy wrote:
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).
So how did you conclude that there are any ligatures? As far as I can
see, the fi and fl ligatures in Arial are identical in appearance with
the corresponding two-letter combinations, and ffi and ffl ligatures do
not exist in Arial.
If it looks like two characters, walks like two characters...
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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
