Ligatures intermingling on RTL direction

[avidseeker]

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)

Other Software

No response

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]

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