fi and fl are common typographic ligatures. They are the first ligatures shown in the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature#/media/File:Ligature_drawing.svg

The Zertifikat becomes Zertifikat, and kostenpflichtig becomes kostenpflichtig.

It depends on the fonts used by the web site and the available fonts on the Linux system, whether they can be displayed and printed correctly.

It could also depends on other settings, e.g. composite characters could automatically be "decomposed".

If in doubt, let the web site use its own fonts, e.g. do not disable the setting "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above".

Or try the "Noto" fonts - they are meant to prevent any missing characters.

To learn more, install the package "unicode" and try:

$ unicode "ligature fi"
$ unicode "ligature fl"

Regards,
Hartmut Buhrmester

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