<!DOCTYPE html>
<html  lang="en" >
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>letter spacing and ligatures</title>
<link rel='author' title='Florian Rivoal' href='https://florian.rivoal.net'>
<link rel='help' href='https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#letter-spacing-property'>
<link rel='match' href='reference/letter-spacing-ligatures-004-ref.html'>
<meta name=flags content="should">
<meta name="assert" content="When the effective spacing between two characters is not zero (due to […] letter spacing), user agents should not apply optional ligatures, but they must apply  ones">
<style>
div {
    font-size: 2em;
    width: 12ch;
    font-kerning: none;
}
.test {
    letter-spacing: 20px;
}
span {
    padding-left: 20px;
}
.ref {
    color: blue;
}
</style>
<p>Test passes if the black text looks like the blue one.
<div lang=km class=test>&#x179F;&#x17B6;&#x17A0;&#x17B6;</div>
<div lang=km class=ref>&#x179F;&#x17B6;<span></span>&#x17A0;&#x17B6;</div>
