DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

[Jim Cornette]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 09 juillet 2006 à 01:28 -0400, Todd Zullinger a écrit :
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>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>> There are some spacing problems in the gnome-terminal where it is
>>> highly noticeable.
>>> There is also a problem when toggle case characters (ToGgLe cAsE)
>>> are being displayed.
>>> the m for small alphabet and the B U and V seem to cause the
>>> greatest problem when trying to distinguish characters.
>>>
>>> The mono version shows the greatest spacing error problems.
>>>
>>> The combination of characters mVaBcUtBm is highly overlapped.
>> Hmmm.  I don't notice this.  I'm viewing this message in mutt running
>> in a gnome-terminal using DejaVu Sans Mono Book 11.
>>
>> Is it possible that other font settings (dpi, smoothing, hinting, or
>> subpixel order) may be the cause of this?
>>
>> I'd be happy to send you a screen shot and my font settings if you
>> think it might help narrow down any possible bugs in fontconfig or in
>> the DejaVu fonts.
> 
> Yes Jim, please post you font settings and a screenshot of the problem
> so it can all be traced (and hopefully resolved)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 

I opened up the below bug report with screenshots.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198094

The m and the V look offset incorrectly to me the most.

Jim

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