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[Bug 668560] Re: Ligatures appear in monospaced text

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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:22:47 -0000
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[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Ligatures appear in monospaced text

Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gedit

  If I am editing code with gedit, and I type the sequences of
  characters "fi" or "fl", then they will be replaced by a ligature and
  visually crammed into the width of a single character.

  The two characters can still be selected and edited separately, so the
  bug is only visual and is not actually being introduced into the code.
  However, this is still bad for many reasons:

  - Ligatures are not designed for monospaced text, so they don't look right
  - The sudden replacement of two characters with a ligature is visually jarring
  - Because the text now takes up a different amount of horizontal space, it can cause text that was meant to align with the text above and below to become misaligned
  - Ligatures in plain text sometimes appear as the result of copying text from a PDF into LaTeX, in which case they are a bug that needs to be fixed before the document will be typeset properly. gedit makes it look like my LaTeX source has this bug when it doesn't.

  How to reproduce: Type the word "final" in gedit.
  Expected behavior: The result should appear 5 characters wide, made of the glyphs "f", "i", "n", "a", and "l".
  Actual behavior: The result appears 4 characters wide, made of the glyphs "fi", "n", "a", and "l".

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gedit 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 29 17:15:54 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gedit

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