[ft-devel] Re: cyrillic "a" == latin "a", please

[Andrey V. Panov]

On Thursday 26 October 2006 01:14, David Turner wrote:
> I've attached a screenshot showing FreeType's rendering of DejaVu Sans
> at 12 points for both Latin and Cyrillic characters. As you'll notice, it
> doesn't exhibit the problem you reported. I've also checked at different
> point sizes, and don't see anything like that with DejaVu

Here is attached ftview screenshot with DejaVu Serif loaded and forced 
autohinter/fitter. As you can see Cyrillic is badly rendered. I found Latin 
module src/autofit/aflatin.c in autohinter and suspect that Latin alphabet is 
rendered in special way when bytecode interpreter is not used. Cyrillic could 
also be rendered by this module since Latin and Cyrillic do not differ much.

-- 
Andrey V. Panov
panov /@/ canopus.iacp.dvo.ru

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