On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 16:18 +0100, Stefan Mueller wrote:

Hi all,

I'm using Inkscape 0.91 on Ubuntu 12.04.

With some fonts, when entering a double s ("ss") in a text block, it is automatically replaced with a sharp s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F). However, sharp s is always incorrect spelling in Switzerland.

This problem appears with all fonts of the ADF family and with Verana, but not with many others.

I suppose this is an Inkscape feature. If so, how can I turn it off?

This is not an Inkscape feature by design but a feature of the underlying text handling library and the fonts you are using. There is a table inside Opentype fonts that controls ligatures. I am guessing that there is an entry in the problematic fonts that says to convert double s to sharp s for German text. Have you set your "locale" to Swiss German? (de_CH). That may disable the table. Or the font may not have the correct information for Swiss German. You can see what locale you are using by typing at a prompt: printenv LANG

CSS3 will allow more control of ligatures but Inkscape hasn't implemented any of the advance features (nor has the Pango library which Inkscape relies on for text layout).

A hacky work-around is to introduce a very small space between the two s's. That should disable the ligature. A small space can be added using one of the options on the Text-Tool Tool-Bar.

Tav

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Stefan

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