Re: umlaut broken

["Denis Jacquerye" <moyogo gmail com>]

On 8/5/06, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list drzeus cx> wrote:
> Red Hat seems to have changed from having Luxi Mono as the default
> monospace font to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. As I am a Swedish user I
> noticed the misrendering seen in the included file.
>
> The application in the image is OpenOffice.org write which seems to use
> greyscale anti-aliasing. The same effect can be seen with GTK+
> applications, where I use subpixel anti-aliasing.
>
> I have no idea which hinter is being used.
>
> Only o-umlaut seem to suffer from the problem (at 10 pt at least).
>
> My system is Fedora Rawhide.
>
> freetype-2.2.1-3
> libXft-2.1.10-1.1
> fontconfig-2.3.95-6

There's a patch to fix this bug in freetype, it's already in freetype's CVS.
See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2006-06/msg00057.html

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye