Bug 270564 – [Gtk/FreeBSD] Ligatures like 'fi' wrongly applied in <pre> and <tt> tags

• Status: NEW
• Component: Text

The WebKit web browser engine seems to have funny problem with properly displaying 'efi' word in <pre> and <tt> HTML tags.

Its just NEVER displayed in 'monospaced' or 'fixed-width' font.

Images:
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@vermaden/112047389165601493

Its on FreeBSD.

    % uname -prism               
    FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p5 amd64 amd64 GENERIC
    
    % pkg info | grep -i '^webkit'
    webkit2-gtk3-2.34.6_10         Opensource browser engine using the GTK 3 toolkit

How to fix that 'fi' or 'efi' strange rendering.

Thanks,
vermaden

[Ahmad Saleem]

Can you try with WebKitGTK newer builds and also share minimal reporduction?

2.34.6 <- this is from 2022. (https://webkitgtk.org/releases/)

Would like to but the FreeBSD port is currently at version I submitted the bug here.

In the mean time I submitted a BUG report on FreeBSD to update the port to some more up-to-date version.

Details: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277526

Regards,
vermaden

I overcome that with this in CSS for the time being:

    pre, code, tt {
      font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;
    }

Regards,
vermaden

Seems there is more serious attempt/work on the more recent WebKit version then my simple BUG report.

Details: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=275914

Regards,
vermaden