> The ligature has no place in writing about computer daemons. Surely we only write the simplified 'daemon' because for several decades mass-market typesetting

> The ligature has no place in writing about computer daemons. Surely we only write the simplified 'daemon' because for several decades mass-market typesetting was too limited to handle the ligature? Under the covers, if you will, it has always had æ in it but the UI was unable to render it. Pedantically we should still all write encyclopædia but it fell out of custom in casual use because of the awkwardness of typing it.