[Bug 368561] ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'

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--- Comment #47 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com>  2008-12-05 16:28:14 EDT ---
> (In reply to comment #12)
> So I would expect Freetype to have a glyph list containing all Latin letters to
> get its autohinter metrics from, and that list doesn't contain the fi
> ligatures. If that's the case, it should be as easy as just adding them to that
> list. But of course, I have no idea how Freetype's autohinter works :-)

Looks like I knew what I was talking about above :-)

Anyway, I'd like to see how the autohinter would handle it when the ligatures
are not encoded at those code points, but out of bounds (i.e. without code
points, only reachable with opentype features), as is done in some fonts...

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