On 7/5/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.mricon.com/misc/dejavu-russian.png > > As you can see, some glyphs are rendering poorly, or don't match the others. This is truly horrible. Are you sure your browser uses DejaVu for cyrillic ?
Yes, it's DejaVu. I'm fairly certain the reason for this is because I have freetype rebuilt enabling the proprietary bytecode interpeter for hinting. Some cyrillic glyphs have manual hinting information, while others don't. Here's a very telling example: http://www.mricon.com/misc/dejavu-sampler.png You can see that in regular serif most cyrillic letters have hinting support except for "ы" and "э" (they look exactly as the non-hinting version). In bold serif, very few letters actually have hinting information, which results in the mish-mash. Arguably, since fedora ships with the bytecode interpreter disabled, this won't manifest itself for anyone using the stock RPM, which is why I don't have any objections to DejaVu making it in as the default font. However, this is certainly a bit of a drawback for the cases when freetype is rebuilt to support the patented bits, especially since latin fonts benefit tremendously from the available hinting information. HTH. Cheers, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
