[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#420717: Ligature fi is wrong in iceweasel (firefox)

[Davide Viti]

reassign 420717 iceweasel
merge 370580 420717
thanks

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: bugs at bretschneidernet.de
>Data: 24/04/2007 11.55
>A: <submit at bugs.debian.org>
>Ogg: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#420717: Ligature fi is wrong in iceweasel	
(firefox)
>
>Package: ttf-dejavu
>Version: 2.16-1
>Severity: normal
>
>--- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>
>If the font "Deja Vu Sans" is used in Iceweasel (Firefox) in a text that 
>is justified, the ligature "fi" (and mayby others) does not work. It 
>seems that the letters after "fi" are move to the left and over 
>the "fi" ligature.
>
>See the attached image file for seeing the problem and the html file for 
>testing.
>
>Other combinations seems to work: Other font, other aligment, other 
>browser... It is a quite strange bug and I recognized it by seeing 
>http://packages.debian.org/testing/editors/openoffice.org-core

it's a known problem not specific to dejavu fonts: see #362569, #370580, 
#404335
for a detailed explanation (thus reassigning the BR)

regards,
Davide


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