Bug 7453

Summary: [hinting] Umlaute look weird
Product: DejaVu Reporter: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Nicolas Mailhot 2006-07-07 03:04:31 UTC 
http://lwn.net/Articles/190416/

Umlaute look weird:
äÄöÖüÜ specifically, the dots above them are somewhat off

and

Zoom up to large font sizes and you'll see that the dots are circular and
perfectly positioned, so the problem is not in the vector fonts. For
some of the smaller sizes they do indeed look dreadful (off-centre), so I
suspect the hinting is poor or nonexistent.
Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2006-07-07 03:05:55 UTC 
Is this a dupe of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7441 ?
Comment 2 John Karp 2007-03-09 10:48:15 UTC 
I can't reproduce this using the bytecode interpreter. It would seem to be an autohinter bug.

If this isn't an autohinter bug, this bug should be reopened with more details, such as a screenshot.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7441 ***

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