Tip: Turn off strange special characters in Apple Pages
If a font does not support connected letter pairs, Pages marks this with an irritating special character. This can be prevented.
When a colleague recently sent me a Pages file for revision, I first reformatted the text into my favorite font, "Calibri." Suddenly, many special characters I had never seen before appeared – like a comma at the top of the line, mainly above the letters c and s. When I reformatted back to the original font, they disappeared again.
You probably have ligatures activated in Pages, a setting that merges two letters into one glyph for typographical reasons.
Depending on the font, these glyphs look better than the two individual letters in succession.
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However, some fonts do not support ligatures. Pages marks this with the special character you mentioned. These disappear when you reformat the text into a font that supports ligatures.
Alternatively, you can turn off ligatures by selecting the entire text or a desired passage and then, in the "Format" menu under "Font > Ligatures," unchecking "Do not use."
Alternatively, you can also do this via the "Format" info panel that appears on the right (see screenshot).
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