On 7 March 2017 at 08:21, Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 March 2017 at 04:30, Sebastian Lackner sebastian@fds-team.de wrote:
Is this a problem with the fonts shipped on Archlinux, or is something going wrong on the Wide side? The font "Estrangelo Edessa" is provided by /usr/share/fonts/OTF/SyrCOMEdessa.otf which can be downloaded at https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/xorg-fonts-misc/download/. If you need any logs or want me to open a bug report, please let me know.
It seems likely that it's related to the font in some way, although without looking further into it I couldn't say whether that's because the font is e.g. missing a ligature or usp10 applying a feature incorrectly. Do you know whether it works correctly with the font from e.g. Windows 7?
So I looked into this a bit, and it looks like that while the Microsoft font has a single glyph for the lamadh-alaph ligature, the Arch font constructs that ligature out of 3 separate glyphs. Both are legitimate, but they're different from each other.