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

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Wed Jun 17 22:19:46 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:29:16PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 
> > On 06/17/2015 08:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Git_config
> > >
> > >    the very first line -- the title "Git config" -- renders the "fi" in
> > > "config" as i described above, and it does that throughout the page.
> > > thoughts?
> >
> > It's not ding that for me.  What I see, however, is a ligature,
> > where the two characters are connected.  Is that what you're
> > complaining about?
> 
>   um ... possibly, but in my case, the two characters are not just
> "connected", there's something wholly different. i've attached a tiny
> screenshot where the text should read "Figure out/stuff". you can see
> where the "ff" in "stuff" is completely different.

I see that image you attached. that's some foreign (to us US-ians)
language symbol that's being picked up instead of a ligature.
Does have the correct locale/language settings? Look in EDIT/
PREFERENCES/CONTENT and click "choose". 

Check out this attached image (of that screen) and set if yours
looks similar.


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