Bug#970357: fonts-adf-tribun: Inappropriate ligatures for ae and oe
Package: fonts-adf-tribun
Version: 0.20190904-2
Severity: normal
Recent versions of the ADF fonts contain an rlig (required ligatures) table
which replaces the letters ae with æ and oe with œ. This is incorrect for at
least Finnish and English and probably many other languages as well. I know
Norwegian uses the ligated versions as separate letters, but I'm not sure if
the non-ligated letter combination also appears (and so if the ligature
substitution could actually change the meaning of the text).
I'm not convinced that the ligatures are useful, since languages where those
ligated letters are used are typically able to enter the relevant Unicode
characters directly from the keyboard. And having them as required ligatures
is definitely wrong since there are many examples of using those letters
separately.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.6.3-k8 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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