--- poppler/CharTypes.h	2006/11/13 00:15:38	1.1
+++ poppler/CharTypes.h	2006/11/13 00:36:07
@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ typedef unsigned int CID;
 // - 16-bit CID
 // - Unicode
 typedef unsigned int CharCode;
+#define CHARCODE_LIGATED 0xFFFFFFFF
 
 #endif
--- poppler/TextOutputDev.cc	2006/11/13 00:15:43	1.1
+++ poppler/TextOutputDev.cc	2006/11/14 23:19:16
@@ -2075,6 +2075,7 @@ void TextPage::addChar(GfxState *state, 
     w1 /= uLen;
     h1 /= uLen;
   for (i = 0; i < uLen; ++i) {
+      if (i > 0) c = CHARCODE_LIGATED;
       if (u[i] >= 0xd800 && u[i] < 0xdc00) { /* surrogate pair */
 	if (i + 1 < uLen && u[i+1] >= 0xdc00 && u[i+1] < 0xe000) {
 	  /* next code is a low surrogate */
@@ -3731,9 +3732,16 @@ void TextSelectionPainter::visitWord (Te
 
   out->beginString(state, string);
 
-  for (i = begin; i < end; i++)
-    out->drawChar(state, word->edge[i], word->base, 0, 0, 0, 0,
-		  word->charcode[i], 1, NULL, 0);
+  for (i = begin; i < end && i >= 0; i--)
+    if (word->charcode[i] != CHARCODE_LIGATED) {
+      out->drawChar(state, word->edge[i], word->base, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+		    word->charcode[i], 1, NULL, 0);
+      break;
+    }
+  for (i = begin + 1; i < end; i++)
+    if (word->charcode[i] != CHARCODE_LIGATED)
+      out->drawChar(state, word->edge[i], word->base, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+		    word->charcode[i], 1, NULL, 0);
   
   out->endString(state);