Summary paragraph received by email from Dave Mitchell.
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LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST.
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+
+Formats: number of edge cases have been fixed with formats and formline;
+in particular, where the format itself is potentially variable (such as
+with ties and overloading), and where the format and data differ in their
+encoding. In both these cases, it used to possible for the output to be
+corrupted.
+
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=head1 Known Problems