some t letters look like an s in Safari

[rmglennon]

I noticed this on the page to choose the boundaries of the custom extract. The actual text is definitely "the" and it's only this "the" that has this problem! The "the" in the next sentence looks OK, but this one is always she on Safari.

Step 1: Confirm ​she boundaries...

[binx]

confirm I see this on safari as well. so... I think this is a bug in the Open Sans webfont. I tried different treatments in the browser (font-size, font-style, font-weight) and it's all still rendering as an s.

@souperneon @migurski thoughts? We use this typeface all over the site... this is the only instance I've seen of this happening, but it does definitely look like a typo...

[louh]

Oooooh. What you have here is a sneaky invisible Unicode control character problem!

There's something weird here:

(You can use an invisible character plugin / option in your text editor to show these.)

I was curious what it was, so I pasted a few characters around it into [unicodelookup.com](http://unicodelookup.com/#m ​t/1):

Everything there is what we'd expect, but then there's that zero-width space character. You definitely don't need that there! And for whatever reason, a zero-width space character plus a letter t causes Safari to render it as an s (ligatures bug?)

Anyway, try this for a quick fix: open the web developer console and delete the text, then retype it. You'll get the correct the because you're typing the letters you expect. So even though there's a weird font bug, it's easily fixable on our end.

[binx]

haha that's amazing. thanks @louh!

[rmglennon]

very nice sleuthing @louh! thanks for sharing.

[souperneon]

awesome @louh 👏