[Bug 655619] Re: Auto-hinter muddles tildes/macrons in Ubuntu font <19px (ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ)

[Adolfo Jayme]

** Bug watch added: Non-GNU Savannah Bug Tracker #23537
   http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23537

** Also affects: freetype via
   http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23537
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to freetype in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655619

Title:
  Auto-hinter muddles tildes/macrons in Ubuntu font <19px (ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ)

Status in FreeType:
  Unknown
Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1. Copy and paste this line into the address field of a Web browser:
  data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<p style="font-family:Ubuntu;font-size:20;">  ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ</p>

  2. Reduce the font-size until the tildes ˜ become indistinguishable
  from the macrons ¯.

  Rendered in 13pt Regular

  Sample Glyphs:

  õ

  Description:

  At size 18 and less õ looks o that doesn't have tilde but simple line
  on it. I don't know if it's a bug but there may be different similar
  letters in other languages. Õ is estonian font.

  UA String:

  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915
  Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/freetype/+bug/655619/+subscriptions