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.
Is this a dupe of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7441 ?
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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