[ft-devel] Re: cyrillic "a" == latin "a", please

[apodtele]

Thank you, Andrey!

My ftview is broken, so I could not check it on Fedora Core 6. I thnk
now there is little doubt that Cyrillic is sometimes mistreated by,
specifically, freetype ;)

Alexei


On 10/26/06, Andrey V. Panov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 October 2006 01:14, David Turner wrote:
> > I've attached a screenshot showing FreeType's rendering of DejaVu Sans
> > at 12 points for both Latin and Cyrillic characters. As you'll notice, it
> > doesn't exhibit the problem you reported. I've also checked at different
> > point sizes, and don't see anything like that with DejaVu
>
> Here is attached ftview screenshot with DejaVu Serif loaded and forced
> autohinter/fitter. As you can see Cyrillic is badly rendered. I found Latin
> module src/autofit/aflatin.c in autohinter and suspect that Latin alphabet is
> rendered in special way when bytecode interpreter is not used. Cyrillic could
> also be rendered by this module since Latin and Cyrillic do not differ much.
>
> --
> Andrey V. Panov
> panov /@/ canopus.iacp.dvo.ru


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Alexei A. Podtelezhnikov, PhD