I clearly see ligatures when zooming in, and the ligature disappears when I select an individual character (Is that a rendering issue of the Arial font, where the glyphs are colliding, and the collisions are not expected when performing individual character selections ?)
I also see these ligatures occuring with Times New Roman. And anyway if CSS3 continues like it is currently specified, it should be the default expected behavior of browsers. 2011/9/13 Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> > > 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... > > -- > Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ >
