How to disable Studio automatically combining letters into ligatures?

I recently upgraded from Studio 2019 to 2022. I suddenly realized that Studio is automatically combining "fi" and "ti" into one-character ligatures (and probably others too). It happens as I type, and it's also done on the imported text. It's not there in the original. I see that it only happens with certain fonts.

I don't want this. It makes it difficult to edit, since I'm always expecting to be able to delete one of the letters or type inbetween them. Also, I don't know if my client wishes this. I haven't been able to figure out how to turn this off. Searching turns up nothing. Can anyone help?

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    Well. this is just a question of habit. You can see headings, list items and other structure information in the most right column of the Editor part in Trados Studio. This information is always there.
    As for viewing the formatting in a software like Trados, I consider this being a nuisance. When you show formatting and the document uses a font not present on your system, Trados Studio will replace this font on the source side with something similar. As long you use ASCII, the target side may get the same font. When you go to languages using enhanced encoding like Polish for example, the substituted font may get substituted again, creating problems in the target file. Not showing formatting means, that Studio uses default font for viewing with no substitutions. Another part of this story are formatting tags, which are not visible in formatted view. Many people will then tend to use "Bold" from the toolbar in TS. But this is usually NOT the same as the tags in source. Especially when working with InDesign or similar files the layouter will literally swear, when getting such translation with hundreds of formatting errors... This is why I never view formatting in Studio. I have switched that off in the version 2011 at the latest.

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