[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#785809: Bug#785809: fonts-dejavu-core: broken ligatures in 2.35

[Adam Borowski]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:32:37PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > In the latest upload, letter combinations that would be ligatures (fi, ff,
> > ffi, ...) get replaced by some random characters instead.  For example, in
> > Dejavu Sans, fi becomes a reversed omega with a breve, while in Dejavu Sans
> > Bold, fi becomes o with a horizontal slash.
> 
> Which program did you use when you saw that issue?

Iceweasel.

> I have not yet been able to reproduce it, neither with libreofice-writer
> nor with pango-view.
> 
> pango-view --text="Waffle" --font="dejavu sans" --waterfall

In both libreoffice-writer and pango-view ligatures do render correctly.


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