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A small test suit for unicode ligature (alphabetic presentation forms) support in browsers. To test different fonts change your browser defaults.

Ligatures with generic font-family: serif;

Character	Ligature	Numeric reference
Latin small ligature ff	ff	ff
Latin small ligature fi	fi	fi
Latin small ligature fl	fl	fl
Latin small ligature ffi	ffi	&#64259
Latin small ligature ffl	ffl	ffl
Latin small ligature long s t	ſt	ſt
Latin small ligature st	st	st

Ligatures with generic font-family: sans;

Character	Ligature	Numeric reference
Latin small ligature ff	ff	ff
Latin small ligature fi	fi	fi
Latin small ligature fl	fl	fl
Latin small ligature ffi	ffi	&#64259
Latin small ligature ffl	ffl	ffl
Latin small ligature long s t	ſt	ſt
Latin small ligature st ligature	st	st

Other characters with generic font-family: serif;

Character	Ligature	Numeric reference
Small sharp s, German (sz ligature)	ß	ß
Capital thorn, Icelandic	Þ	Þ
Small thorn, Icelandic	þ	þ
Latin capital letter AE	Æ	Æ
Latin small letter ae	æ	æ
Capital IJ ligature	IJ	IJ
Lowercase ij ligature	ij	ij
Latin capital ligature OE	Œ	Œ
Latin small ligature (misnomer) oe	œ	œ
Capital NJ ligature	NJ	NJ
Leading capital Nj ligature	Nj	Nj
Lowercase nj ligature	nj	nj
Capital DZ ligature	DZ	DZ
Leading capital Dz ligature	Dz	Dz
Lowercase dz ligature	dz	dz

Footnotes

This is not intended to be exhaustive. More references are needed than some old notes I had lying around. Please contact me if you have corrections, relevant detail, suggestions. Created in response to a question from Vivien on Tue 10 Aug, 2010.

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