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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Ahmad Samir wrote:

> 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.

  precisely what i'm seeing.

> However, checking again now the issue seems to be fixed.
>
> When was the last time you restarted your system?

  i don't think i *had* restarted my system since this started, but i
just killed and restarted firefox (again) and everything is suddenly
fine. so ... carry on.

rday

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