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

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 03:58:51 UTC 2015


On 17 June 2015 at 18:02, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Dave Stevens wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >   ok, maybe not old english, but recently, my wiki pages suddenly
>> > started rendering the two-character string "fi" as some weird,
>> > stylized "m" with a curved stroke above it (can't remember what that's
>> > called).
>> >
>> >   i'm on fully-updated fedora rawhide, so it might be a fedora thing,
>> > it might be a font thing, it might be a firefox thing, i have no idea.
>> >
>> >   has anyone else seen this? here's a sample page where this happens
>> > throughout:
>> >
>> > 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?
>>
>> not really, not happening on my U14.04 box with Firefox 38
>
>   depending on whether this mailing list allows attachments at all, i
> attached a tiny (2.2K) image, showing the bullet list items
>
>  * using the reflog
>  * workflows
>
> where you can see the string "fl" is also rendered weirdly. of course,
> if this ML strips attachments, that's not going to help.
>
> rday
>

I saw a similar issue after updating to dejavu-sans-fonts-2.35-1.fc22,
fl was rendered weirdly. However, checking again now the issue seems
to be fixed.

When was the last time you restarted your system?

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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