In the attached testcase (evinceligbug.pdf), the ligature comes from an
alternate font as code 0x56, ASCII 'V'. Whether or not the ligature is
blank on highlighting or shows V depends on whether V is present in the
subsetted font that the rest of the word uses. One could argue that
showing V is
Public bug reported:
Evince renders a PDF document containing ff ligatures (taken from a different
font than the surrounding text comes from) correctly upon first opening the
file, but fails to render an ff ligature when the word containing it is
highlighted with the cursor. I am attaching a
