Re: zathura: Ligatures, like "fi", are not rendered. (fwd)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Dear Debian Poppler Maintainers, dear all,

> This bug report seems to be related:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291

This fix is not in fontconfig, nor in the TeX Gyre fonts, but
poppler needs to be fixed.

Adobe Glyph specification states clearly that new fonts should use
	f_i
etc as glyph names for ligatures. See my last post in the above
freedesktop bug.

I suggest the Debian poppler maintainers to adopt the patch by 
Sebatisan to the poppler source to make ligatures in new style
fonts again available, given in this freedesktop bug:
	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80093

Poppler upstream maintainers seem to be ignorant about this, and
even worse, seem to be completely incooperative. I *STRONGLY*
suggest that this patch is included in the Debian poppler packages.

> that bug report, and linked to a commit:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/?id=c6aa4d4bfcbed14f39d070fe7ef90a4b74642ee7

Which is the wrong approach taken by fontconfig.

Norbert

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