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Originally Posted by WillAdams
The combined forms æ and œ are diphthongs, not ligatures and should only be used when linguistically appropriate.
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The Wiki article on typographic ligatures disagrees with you:
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Æ comes from Medieval Latin, where it was an optional ligature in some words, for example, "Æneas". It is still found as a variant in English and French, but the trend has recently been towards printing the A and E separately.[5] Similarly, Œ and œ, while normally printed as ligatures in French, can be replaced by component letters if technical restrictions require it.
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