as a side note (i can't see the proposed patch, so ignore this if the patch does this already), but do be sure not to remove the lig glyphs from the fonts, but rather just any gsub (or the like) features which replace char sequences with the ligs.
ie, anything which replaces f i with fi, etc, should go, but the fi glyph, the mapping from U+FB01 to that glyph, and so on for the others, should all remain. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6