Inkscape treats ligatures as one character.

[easyaspi314]

I am not an admin and can't download DMG files, so I am stuck on 0.91 r13725. Mac OS X 10.11.4.

When selecting or using arrow keys through text, ligatures are treated as one character.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Make a text field.
2. Choose a font that has ligatures: DejaVu, Roboto, Fira Sans, Minion Pro, Constantina, PT Sans, to name a few.
3. Type "fix me".
4. Try to highlight just the "f". Place the cursor between the "f" and "i".

What should happen:

Although Inkscape renders the text as a ligature, it is treated as two. Inkscape splits the ligature into how many characters it is joining mathematically.

What happens:

Inkscape treats the ligature as if it is one character. It can not be selected indivindividually as characters.

The only fix is to backspace/delete a trailing character to break the ligature.

[Alex Farlie (afarlie)]

Have confirmed this.

[easyaspi314 (husseydevin)]

Alex, what OS are you on, for reference?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced on Windows XP (32-bit) with Inkscape 0.91 and trunk rev. 14902.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/4055
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/nathanal