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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    Showing formatting (with or without tags makes no difference) means using the font from the source file, the font size and other font attributes from there. In case the font is available, it will be used directly. If the font from the source file is not available, a substitute font will be used without any warning. Exactly as in all MS Office applications. This is not good IMO, as no user is then aware of using a substitute font, making the layout in fact corrupt. I would expect any application to warn the user about missing fonts, like Adobe apps do. Unfortunately, MS seems not to care about his at all.

    Possible solution for you: change the font in your source file to Arial prior to translation and replace it back with the original font after the translation.

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  • That's a good suggestion. I think that will usually be what I will do from now on. Only when the source file have several different fonts will it be a problem, but that's usually not the case.

    I don't see the problem with the font being substituted by Studio, since the translated output will still use the original font. It only has to do with how it's displayed in the editor, nothing else.

    Another thing: It is a "feature" of the font (Calibri in this case) that it has these ligatures. Excel does not use them, but Word does. However, Word does so in the correct way: Ligatures are automatically replaced, but they still act as two letters, meaning you can delete one of the letters, and you can type inbetween them. Studio does it in the wrong way.

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    Excel does not use them, but Word does. However, Word does so in the correct way: Ligatures are automatically replaced, but they still act as two letters

    Correct, and ligatures can be disabled in Word here:

    Screenshot of the Font settings dialog in Microsoft Word with the Advanced tab selected. Ligatures option is set to 'None' in the OpenType Features section.

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  • I don't see the problem with the font being substituted by Studio, since the translated output will still use the original font. It only has to do with how it's displayed in the editor, nothing else.

    Well, it will, if the encoding fits. Will not in languages like Polish or other languages outside of ANSI/ASCII.

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