SUPPORT / SAMPLES & SAS NOTES
 

Support

Problem Note 70958: Font ligature might need to be removed in order to correctly display codes in SAS® Studio programs

DetailsHotfixAboutRate It

When using Mozilla Firefox as your browser and entering code into SAS Studio programs, you might encounter a display problem:

  1. Create a program in SAS Studio.
  2. Add the following code in the program
titlle1 'aabbccddeeffgghhiijkkllmmnnooppgqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz ;
title2  'aabbccddeefgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppgqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz ;
proc print data=SASHELP.CLASS; run;

After you run the program, the codes are displayed incorrectly as shown in the following screen shot:

incorrect display

As shown above, title1 contains two fs that occupy the same amount of screen space as the single f in title2 in the program editor and in the log.

Workaround

To work around this problem, perform the following steps:

  1. Install the stylus extension to add the style that disables font ligatures
  2. Add the style: font-feature-settings: "liga" 0;

page inspector

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.



Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS Studio64-bit Enabled AIX3.819.4 TS1M7
64-bit Enabled Solaris3.819.4 TS1M7
HP-UX IPF3.819.4 TS1M7
Linux for x643.819.4 TS1M7
Solaris for x643.819.4 TS1M7
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.