Cascadia family version

2106.17

Cascadia family variant(s)

Cascadia Code (the version with ligatures), Cascadia Mono (the version without ligatures)

Font file format(s)

.ttf (variable), .ttf (static), .otf (static)

Platform

macOS 10.14.6

Other Software

No response

What happened?

Arabic presentation forms represent specific glyphs that are immune to contextual shaping. When a lam presentation form precedes an alef presentation form, they should not be ligated. To get a lam–alef ligature using presentation forms, you should use a character like U+FEFB ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF ISOLATED FORM.

Here is <U+FEDF, U+FE8E, U+FEDF, U+FE84, U+FEDF, U+FE88, U+FEDF, U+FE82, U+FEDF, U+FB51, U+FEDF, U+FD3C, U+FEE0, U+FE8E, U+FEE0, U+FE84, U+FEE0, U+FE88, U+FEE0, U+FE82, U+FEE0, U+FB51, U+FEE0, U+FD3C>:

It should look like this: