I'm at a loss to explain this

[dabob]

I am having an issue with Helvetica Neue 77 Condensed Bold - when I type in certain character pairs they change into a special character, see attached image

I am so confused - if I use the glyph box to insert the letters they come out correctly . .. HELP

 

[kyle]

Is this Indesign? Turn off "use ligatures" in the character palette if so and see what happens. My guess is the font data has ligatures for those pairs (which usually don't have ligatures) pointing to those glyphs. I think most fonts with ligatures just have fl, fi, ffi, and maybe ffl.

 

[wonderings]

Do you maybe have a different language set for your keyboard?

 

[Possumgal]

It's Gremlins.

 

[jlee]

I think you have a scandanavian language set for your keyboard.

 

[dabob]

And the winner is . . . . drum roll please . . . .

WONDERINGS . . . WITH LIGITURES . . .


I knew that there was a button/checkbox somewhere that I couldn't find - looked in the preferences and no joy so off to my friends at print planet for the anwser - thanks guys

 

[LoneGoose]

Those are ligatures alright, but not English ligatures. I wouldn't turn off ligatures in InDesign - your letterspacing / kerning in other documents will look funny. (Try "ff", "ft" etc.) Try to fix your language preferences.