bug#23360: bug fonts display overlap all versions

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!

> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:09:23 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 23360@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:17:57 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: fxiny <wtimew@libero.it>
> > 
> > bug : all emacs versions after 2016-02-14 are affected
> > all emacs pretests version are affected including today .93
> > 25.0.92 and 93 are buggy , 25.0.91 is not
> > 
> > this is what :
> > fonts menlo very bad displaying = overlapping vertical line space 
> > (and other fonts mono i am told in irc chan )
> > 
> > by eyeballing changelogs i have compiled ii by using src/xftfont.c 
> > from pretest 25.0.91 version and it works just fine
> > 
> > scroll down at changelog line reading "2016-02-25" "Remove unneeded 
> > workaround in xftfont.c"
> > 
> > i guess it was needed :)
> 
> It was causing problems elsewhere, see the bug report which got fixed
> by removing the workaround.
> 
> I hope Handa-san (CC'ed) could look into this issue.
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