Re: umlaut broken

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 02:00 +0200, Denis Jacquerye wrote:
> 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

Can you please file a bug with Fedora and list such patches, so I can
push them in Fedora's fontconfig rpm?

> Denis Moyogo Jacquerye

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