um ... why are my wiki pages suddenly rendering "fi" in olde english?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Fred Smith wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:09:19PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > > thoughts?
> > >
> > > Possibly something to do with the charset specified in the headers
> > > the web server claims to be serving versus the actual charset of
> > > the data on the pages? I don't recall seeing a problem with "fi"
> > > before, but I encounter web pages every day where the pages
> > > were actually produced by some Windows tool using some windows
> > > encoding, yet the server claims the encoding is UTF-8. This
> > > always causes all sorts of nonsense rendering in browsers which
> > > actually believe what they are told.
> >
> >   can *you* see the issue i'm describing? i just fired up midori and
> > things look fine with midori, so it's firefox that appears to be
> > having the issue.
>
> Robert:
>
> I just sent a post to the list containing an attached screen dump of the
> "problem" very much enlarged, taken from firefox on Centos 7.
>
> That post is being held for moderation, so it may not appear on
> the list...
>
> so, what I see is: the pairs "ff", "fi", and as one other posted
> mentioned "fl" are all being rendered as a ligature. On my screen
> it looks fine, but it sounds as you're seeing a ligature from some
> other font. The sans serif font in which my firefox renders it,
> ligatures look almost exactly like separate characters, unless you
> blow them way up, as I did.
>
> do you, perhaps, have your firefox configured to use fonts other
> than those called for by the web page?

  i haven't touched my firefox settings in an eternity, so i can't
think of what might have changed. i'm digging around in my firefox
settings, trying to figure out what to tweak, but nothing looks out of
place.

  i will keep playing ...

rday

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