How to disable Studio automatically combining letters into ligatures?

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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?

Jerzy Czopik · Accepted Answer

Nicholas Knutsen 
 Do you show formatting? If so, go to File -> Options -> Editor and switch to "Show all tags, but no formatting". Maybe this can help.

Bogdan Costisor · Answer

Hello there, this is a bug on our side. For some reasons, yet unknown and out of our control, as the font API is the same that is used by MS Word, we get the two letters merged by default into a ligature. Until we investigate this properly, a workaround would be to place the caret at the tail end and press backspace to delete the "i" character, then type in what you want and add back manually the "i" letter.

One thing to note: if you were to use an actual ligature, not the mistake the API does here, then you wouldn't be able to type in between the two letters or delete them separately as they are treated as one and we currently support what the font has setup as default. This is the same for MS Word, with the exception that they have indeed a possibility to turn this off.

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Nicholas Knutsen 
 Go to File -> Options -> Editor -> AutoCorrect and check the settings for your target language.

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Nicholas Knutsen 
 Thank you for the file. This is indeed very astonishing, as when I define Polish as target and simply copy source to target I get the ligature "ti" shown (we do not have such ligatures in our language). However, the target text copied and pasted here is "til". The font in your file is Calibri. After changing the font to Arial, NO ligature is generated. Obviously, I changed the view to show formatting and no tags before. So for me the problem is really connected to this setting and the way Trados Studio shows the font Calibri...

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How to disable Studio automatically combining letters into ligatures?

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