Ligatures intermingling on RTL direction

microsoft / cascadia-code

This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

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Ligatures intermingling on RTL direction #714

Open avidseeker opened 4 months ago

avidseeker commented 4 months ago

Cascadia family version

2111.01

Cascadia family variant(s)

Cascadia Code (the version with ligatures)

Font file format(s)

.ttf (static)

Platform

Linux (freetype2 2.13.2)

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What happened?

The following text is displayed correctly within a regular HTML textbox.

<!-- == مقدمة الصفحة == -->

However when setting direction: rtl; property for that textbox, this is the result

For comparison this is DejaVu Sans Mono:

aaronbell commented 4 months ago

Looks like the ligatures feature is misbehaving in RTL environments. I’d suggest using the Mono version for the time being while I figure out if there is a solution