Can't highlight part of text that is rendered as a ligature with the mouse
Migrated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1581275
No duplicates when searching for ligatures in https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=all&search=ligature
Steps to reproduce:
- open Inkscape
- write some text, e.g. "unflattering"
- switch to a font where the
fl
is treated as a ligature (e.g. DejaVu Sans) - try to highlight the l only, or put the cursor between the f and the l, without the keyboard
What happened?
- can't highlight just part of the ligature by clicking and dragging
- can't position cursor between the f and l by clicking
- both can be done with arrow key navigation, but when only one letter is highlighted, both appear to be highlighted anyway.
What should have happened?
- Inkscape treats the ligature as if it is two character. You should be able to select characters individually using the mouse.
Version Info:
- 1.1-dev (e4105d8b38, 2020-11-20) Linux Mint 20
- 0.92.5 (0ad1ac969f, 2020-08-06) Linux Mint 20
- trunk rev. 14902 Windows XP (32-bit)
- 0.91 Windows XP (32-bit)
- 0.91 r13725. Mac OS X 10.11.4.
Edited by Nathan Lee