[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'

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--- Comment #21 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com>  2008-11-10 06:52:41 EDT ---
> To me all this ligature stuff for Latin letters looks like a solution
> looking for a problem, i.e. "hey, we have all this complex text layout
> framework for Arabic and Indic scripts, let's also use it for Latin just to
> be fancy".

Ligatures for Latin already existed in Medieval times with the first printing
devices. It's not like they suddenly appeared out of nowhere the past decade
just because we created the OpenType system.

It would be nice though if features can be manually turned on and off by a
user...

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