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

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Adam,

Am Mittwoch, den 20.05.2015, 14:04 +0200 schrieb Adam Borowski: 
> 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.

wow, this sounds bad! o_O

Which program did you use when you saw that issue? I have not yet been
able to reproduce it, neither with libreofice-writer nor with
pango-view. Could you please install the libpango1.0-dev package and
confirm that the issue occurs (or not) when you call

pango-view --text="Waffle" --font="dejavu sans" --waterfall

or any other text string containing ligatures and also "dejavu sans
bold" and the other flavors? 

The fontconfig files have remained unchanged since the 2.34 release, si
I have really no idea what could cause the issue for you but not for me.

Thanks,

Fabian

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