[Bug 275758] x11-fonts/noto-basic and x11-fonts/fontconfig together enable ligatures in "monospace" font
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:17:41 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=275758 George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |george@m5p.com --- Comment #5 from George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> --- Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. But here's an odd thing: I use XFCE4 and associated applications, and I observe this problem in Thunderbird and Mousepad -- but not Firefox and not xfce4-terminal. So there is apparently some way for a clever program to render text in fixed width using Noto Mono but not magically replacing (for example) eff-ell with a ligature. But by the same token, if I come across a text which uses the Unicode ligature code points, I would expect to see them rendered as ligatures (though it's hard to imagine "ffl" smooshed into one space). So I don't want the fonts to (in effect) lose the ligature glyphs altogether. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.