[Devel] small Serif'ed text: FT-2.1.3, XFree86 CVS

[Vadim Plessky]

I will start from lyrics.
New James Bond movie is out (it's launched here today), and I tried to check 
schedule in different places thi smorning.
I used this URL:
http://www.afisha.ru/movie-review?id=1177828&from=feature

and found that can't read text at all /Konqueror 3.2 from KDE 3.1/.  :-(
Offending word was at the start ("Миллионер", Engl. millionaire), and 
rendering of 'и' (by FreeType/XFree86) is completly broken, IMO.

I attached screenshot from that URL, and prepared small HTML testcase (zipped) 
so it would be easy to test (original web page is *huge*, about 485KB)

According to analysis of HTML/CSS from that site, "guilty" font is Times New 
Roman with size of 8pt.  
Does someone have an idea what's going wrong?
Same font at 9pt is more-less ok (and rendering of text with FT-2.1.3 and 
XFree86 CVS is much better than what I had before, so I think XFree86 CVS has 
some enhancements over XF-4.2.1)
But shape of 'и' (Cyr. 'i')  is completly broken - diagonal stem disappeared, 
and serifs from two vertical stems almost "joined" each other.

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Vadim Plessky
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afisha.ru-Bond-test
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afisha.ru-Bond-cutted.png
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