[Issue]: "Bouncing" `*` on Curses TUI with ligatures on

[Neved4]

[!IMPORTANT]
Fix: Disable ligatures on your terminal font.

Edition

Plus

What version are you using?

2.003

What type of weights are you using?

Static (customized)

Operating system

macOS Sonoma 14.5

Program

Terminal.app, iTerm2, Kitty

Display resolution

2880x1800

What happened?

Found an amusing one: MonoLisa seems to have bouncy asterisks on a terminal running curses.

Videos show GnuPG's pinentry (curses) with MonoLisa and SF Mono, respectively:

https://github.com/MonoLisaFont/feedback/assets/63655535/6f770e8a-c119-43cd-af72-bfbdebf1e191

https://github.com/MonoLisaFont/feedback/assets/63655535/66842de7-7b7f-4da1-bf3b-9c5a0ede03a7

Notice how the asterisk symbol bounces when entering the password when using the MonoLisa font.

Not sure how much of this is related to MonoLisa's glyphs / bitmap and how much is related to pinentry / curses, and if other curses programs are also affected.

Probably a nitpick without importance, so low priority.

Thanks for your amazing font! 🤍

[okonet]

It's a ligature kicking in. One way would be to disable ligatures since I don't know if there is a way to make it work differently.

[Neved4]

That was exactly it! Sorry I didn't know, thanks so much @okonet! Will close

P.S. For anyone else looking, in Kitty there's disable_ligatures always, in iTerm 2 there's a setting too, and in Terminal.app there's a Ligatures setting under the Typography menu for the font: