1. the bug occurs with the FreeSans and FreeSerif fonts too. If this is a font bug, then it is one common to all these fonts.
2. The bug is not present with MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1, but it also doesn't use the available ligatures then. This isn't that interesting since the non-pango renderer breaks layout for other languages.
3. I got Ray Strode (from Red Hat) to test if the bug occurred with the Fedora firefox builds, and it turns out that they also exhibit the bug. I also got confirmation of the bug on various other platforms in the comments here: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/jamesh/2006/04/03/0
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1. the bug occurs with the FreeSans and FreeSerif fonts too. If this is a font bug, then it is one common to all these fonts.
2. The bug is not present with MOZ_DISABLE_ PANGO=1, but it also doesn't use the available ligatures then. This isn't that interesting since the non-pango renderer breaks layout for other languages.
3. I got Ray Strode (from Red Hat) to test if the bug occurred with the Fedora firefox builds, and it turns out that they also exhibit the bug. I also got confirmation of the bug on various other platforms in the comments here: blogs.gnome. org/view/ jamesh/ 2006/04/ 03/0
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So this doesn't look like an Ubuntu specific bug.
I did up a simple example page that demonstrates the bug here: www.gnome. org/~jamesh/ firefox- ligature. html
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