[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 8213] DejaVu serif italic æ

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mattias.ellert at tsl.uu.se changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |




------- Additional Comments From mattias.ellert at tsl.uu.se  2006-09-29 21:22 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> This was done on purpose. Some other fonts do that too. It's a way to avoid
> confusion between æ U+00E6 and œ U+0153 at most sizes.

Since noone is going to use a propotional italic font as a terminal font this
argument is not really valid. I have seen this kind of "intentional design flaw"
on bitmapped fixed width fonts at low resolutions. In some of these cases a
truetype version of the same font does not have this behaviour.

As it is now the font is not really useful, because every time a reader sees the
italic æ the first reaction is to be annoyed that it doesn't look like it
belongs to the font. This means that the message written with the font will not
be communicated to the reader without this distraction.

Please reconsider.           
     
     
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