802936 - Ligatures containing a space do not render.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 761442

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Larry Fox]

Attachment: Ligature not rendering

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4

Steps to reproduce:

Visit http://oak.is/testing/moz-ligature-test.html


Actual results:

Ligature containing a space does not render: http://cl.ly/image/1g2H3H3O1K1t


Expected results:

Ligature should have rendered normally: http://cl.ly/image/0N421Q1v2X16 (Screenshot from Chrome)

Comment 1

[Loic]

Some previous versions of Firefox showed the thumb with the 'up' on the right , see http://i.imgur.com/P3JWW.png

m-c
good=2012-01-06
bad=2012-01-07
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=8ae16e346bd0&tochange=5a446202be5f

m-i
good=2012-01-05
bad=2012-01-06
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=2c1e788aea4e&tochange=a8504f167770

I would suspect this bug: Bug 703100.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Bug 703100 didn't really cause this, but it does make it more consistent; previously, such a ligature might have worked, or might not, depending on details of the order in which words are encountered (for caching purposes) in the text. Even within the same page, it could behave inconsistently due to pre-existing cache entries.

Now, such a ligature will never work, because we consistently shape each word in isolation.