Re: 'fi' ligatures [solved]

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Sat Apr 30 22:13:50 2005

On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Ricky Sharp wrote:

>
> On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Ricky Sharp wrote:
>
>

>> I filed a bug <rdar://4097772> which describes a problem where 
>> 'fi' will show up as a combined ligature in plain text e-mails and 
>> documents.
>>
>> For example, in TextEdit, set your Format in the prefs to Plain Text.
>>
>> Make a new document and type in words that begin with 'fi' (e.g. 
>> file).  Notice that once you type the 'i', it will combine with 
>> the 'f'.
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>
>> Also, I am _not_ seeing this issue at all with NSTextFields; seems 
>> to be isolated to Mail.app and TextEdit.app.
>>

>
> Thanks to an off-list tip that I may be using a different font than 
> others, I tracked the problem down to having two sets of Courier 
> and Monaco in my Font Book.  Specifically, I saw two entries for 
> Regular and two for Bold.  Deleting one of them removed the 
> problem; I was able to view all my mail messages as they should be 
> (i.e. 'f' and 'i' never combined anymore).
>
> Mail.app was using Courier and TextEdit.app was using Monaco.
>
>
> Also seeing duplicates in about a dozen other fonts in my Font Book 
> (e.g. Osaka, Times, Tribune).  Don't know what may have caused 
> this, but it could be related to doing an upgrade install vs. a 
> clean one.


I can repro this on a stock Tiger install (clean, not upgrade) with 
these steps:
- Open TextEdit and type "ffffff" (or fi or fl; pick your favorite 
ligature)
- Press cmd+shift+T to switch to plain text
- From the Font panel, choose Lucida Grande 144 point.
Voila, ligatures.