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    Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

    OK, let's get ahead of this nonsense this year. "ffi" is the Latin Small Ffi Ligature. It's a nice way of presenting two Fs and an I (say, in "efficient") without the various dots and ascenders mushing together. Most fonts have it, and you see it every day without noticing it.pic.twitter.com/fkNRRi5B4u

    Visual examples of ligatures looking nice
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      2. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

        Usually they just look nice and get out of the way, but ligatures can cause problems, say when a passage in a book is supposed to look like it's written on a typewriter but the typesetter forgot to turn them off. No typewriter has an "fi" key.pic.twitter.com/e1aYgzonpd

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      3. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

        And usually they're added in automatically, rather than being encoded in the text, but sometimes (as in the tweets above) you can put them in explicitly, and that can cause problems when a font doesn't have that ligature. You might get a box, a font change, "?" or nothing at all.

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      4. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

        Which brings us to this cracker joke which you are going to see a lot on the internet over the next month. It's not the joke as intended, but it's not really a typo either—who forgets to type three consecutive letters? It's "coffin medicine" rendered in a font with no "ffi" glyph.pic.twitter.com/8jXNsJkWco

        Q: What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take? A: Con medicine
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      5. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

        This also explains how this error got into the product: almost certainly the joke *was* proof-read, but in a font where it rendered correctly and made perfect sense. I mean obviously it still wasn't *funny*, but it's a cracker joke, they're not supposed to be funny.

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      6. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

        They are supposed to basically work as jokes, though, and this doesn't (in any font). "Cough medicine" shouldn't be in the setup. The first line should be "what does Dracula take when he has a sore throat" or similar. This is one step from "what cough medicine is like a coffin".

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      7. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018

        Of course, none of this excuses the fact that this is at least the third year this error has appeared, but I invite you to imagine an office of people dismantling boxes of crackers, finding the ones with this joke in it, and switching in a correction without breaking anything.

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      2. eml_f‏ @eml_f 25 Nov 2018
        Replying to @Andrew_Taylor

        The ff one is used in Welsh occasionally, as digraphs are pretty much treated like separate letters. It's noticeable on the Millennium Centre in Cardiff (in the bottom left of the text)pic.twitter.com/U6GnrZnnXr

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      3. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018
        Replying to @eml_f

        Oh, that's interesting. There are explicit digraphs in Unicode but I don't really know what they're for. I don't think any Welsh ones are in? My favourite 'digraphs are one letter' bit is the rule in Welsh Scrabble banning putting two Ls together and acting like it's an LL.pic.twitter.com/f8QfDseBR2

        Welsh Scrabble tiles
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      2. Andreas Heigl @  🏡‏ @heiglandreas 25 Nov 2018
        Replying to @Andrew_Taylor @RaeKnowler

        Which serious Monospaced font contains a ligature?? Or am. I. missing the point here??

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      3. Andrew Taylor‏ @Andrew_Taylor 25 Nov 2018
        Replying to @heiglandreas @RaeKnowler

        Not sure what you're getting at, but loads of monospace fonts have the ligature glyphs included. It's just that usually they're disabled by default so you rarely see them. It's still useful to have them though, in case the text you're viewing includes explicit ligatures.

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