Re: Fix for fonts with broken kerning tables

[Werner LEMBERG]

> A client of mine ran into a problem with FT1.x kerning: for some
> fonts that *do* have a format 0 kerning table there still seemed to
> be no kerning.  The problem turned out to be easy & stupid: the kern
> table in the font wasn't sorted, so the binary search didn't work.
> 
> Obviously, the font is broken, but since those fonts are "out there"
> I believe a fix to FT is a Good Thing.  And it doesn't need to cost
> much: I can quickly check whether the table is sorted, and only
> qsort the table if it isn't.  This will happen in Subtable_Load_0().

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> 
> Would anyone object to such a fix? I might check it in this weekend, but if
> there are strong objections I can take it out again. (And if it's ok, I'll
> also adapt the fix for FT2.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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