[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 18614] Mono Sans: accent with Russian letters causes letters collapsing

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18614





--- Comment #7 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com>  2008-11-19 08:19:21 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> But on Windows XP all browsers render test page incorrectly, even Apple's
> Safari (I thought it has its own mechanisms for font rendering).

Hmm, I thought that as well. You can see the other ones are rendered exactly
the same since they all use Uniscribe. I'd have thought that Apple would have a
better record when it comes to supporting opentype...

If you test the snapshot from tomorrow I think you'll see a slight change btw:
the accent will be on the correct glyph. I don't think it'll do anything on the
overlap.

Basically the issue here is that renderers think they're smart and adjust like
they think it would work, but don't take into account that if they do that they
have to discard the method used by the font to let it render correct by
renderers that don't play smart... So if we let it render correct with Windows
XP, the other ones will render incorrectly...


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