The base glyph for e-macron differs from an 'e' when Freetype autohinting is enabled and the fontsize is 10.
Created attachment 7224 [details] Screenshot
This is a Freetype autohinting bug. There is nothing we can do from the font side.
Mass move of freetype bugs to the new freetype product
Reopen the NOTOURBUG reports now they're correctly affected
It seems to be fixed with the current CVS. I can't reproduce it with either 72 or 96 dpi.
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