Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:52 -0500, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> said:

    >> +** Under X, some characters are unexpectedly wide.
    >> +
    >> +e.g. recent versions of Inconsolata show this issue for almost all of
    >> +its characters.  Due to what is probably an Xft bug, the determination
    >> +of the width of some characters is incorrect.  One workaround is to
    >> +build emacs with Cairo enabled ("configure --with-cairo" and have the
    >> +appropriate Cairo development packages installed) as this
    >> +configuration does not suffer from this problem.  See
    >> +<https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/42> and
    >> +<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-01/msg00456.html>
    >> +for more discussion.

    Stefan> Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result?

I see this in an XFT build both with and without Harfbuzz.

Robert