Font rendering question - FS Lola Medium Regular.ttf

[Andrew Murray]

Hi,

Over at Python Pillow, a user is trying to render a space character with FS 
Lola Medium Regular.ttf - https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/8272

If it helps, the font is available at 
https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16443570/FS.Lola.Medium.Regular.zip

Pillow is currently raising an error because the glyph bitmap has no buffer for 
the space character. Here is code to demonstrate that it is present for the 
letter A, but missing for the space character.

    FT_Library library;
    FT_Init_FreeType(&library);
    FT_Face face = NULL;
    FT_New_Face(library, "./FS Lola Medium Regular.ttf", 0, &face);
    FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(face, 0, 27);
    FT_Load_Glyph(face, 66, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT | FT_LOAD_RENDER);
    printf(face->glyph->bitmap.buffer ? "has buffer\n" : "no buffer\n");
    FT_Load_Glyph(face, 33, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT | FT_LOAD_RENDER);
    printf(face->glyph->bitmap.buffer ? "has buffer\n" : "no buffer\n”);

My question - is it acceptable for a space character to have no bitmap buffer, 
since there are no pixels to draw? Or should it still have one, and this font 
is broken in some way?

Thanks very much.