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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Fi, ff, etc shouldn't be treated as new letters. As I understand it the font is just telling the engine "hey if these two are near each other display this instead", the underlying letters are still the same.
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Yes.
Some fancy programming tools now use Ligatures instead of != or whatever, it's horrid.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
þ and ƕ may only come up in a search for þ or ƕ I don't run into those ligatures so I can't say.
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þ is not a ligature it's a distinct letter. Nor is ð or ø.
& started as the ligature version of et, but is a distinct letter ages ago, English kids used to place it after z. Indeed ø isn't a special version of o, like ó or ò, it's placed after z, though sometimes ö represents ø and in some languages the ö is an accented o, not an extra letter.
œ and æ are technically ligatures, but unlike fi and fl etc they are not due to kerning tight letter spacing. They represent letters not in the Latin-Roman alphabet, so shouldn't be artificially created by rendering on screen or paper.
BTW, these are all really easy to type on Linux using either AltGr<letter> or the old Compose<letter letter>. I have the Compose key mapped to CapsLock and hitting both Shift Keys is CapsLock, either unlocks.
If you have an ancient keyboard were RightAlt is never AltGr, then Ctrl Alt = AltGr (Try US International Keyboard in Windows if you have a US keyboard).