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bug#22699: 25.0.91; Accented characters truncated with DejaVu Sans Mono
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
bug#22699: 25.0.91; Accented characters truncated with DejaVu Sans Mono |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:02:10 +0100 (CET) |
> I indeed confirm that the problem exists in version 2.35 of the
> font, but not in an earlier version I had before that (2.19?). So
> perhaps a bug report to the DejaVu fonts is in order.
Yes, probably – at least that the DejaVu maintainers can comment on
this problem.
>> The only solution to reliably avoid this issue is to use the
>> DirectWrite library, as far as I know.
>
> Does MS-Word on Windows 8.1 use DirectWrite? Because it, too,
> suffers from the same problem with this font and size, when
> displaying that character.
I have no idea, since I don't use Windows. As mentioned earlier, you
might check the `Aringacute' glyph in arial.ttf – if it is cropped,
you probably have an old engine that suffers the usWin{Ascent,Descent}
limitations.
Werner
bug#22699: 25.0.91; Accented characters truncated with DejaVu Sans Mono, Andy Moreton, 2016/02/23