[Affinity Publisher 2 seemingly splits text in to shapes]

Hi

I am using the OTR type font in affinity publisher 2 but it seems to split the letters in to shapes (it still is a text, which can be edited). It looks the same in the PDF. The font works fine in other programs. 

Is there some sort of option that is activated but shouldn't?

(my current workaorund is to convert teh text in curves and clean up with the shape builder tool, but this leaves me with curves instead of a textframe)

 

Thanks for any sort of help, Dean