[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#517351: ttf-freefont: weird character mappins in FreeSans

[Russ Allbery]

Package: ttf-freefont
Version: 20090104-2
Severity: important

I just updated ttf-freefont and I'm now seeing rather strange characters
in displayed web pages.  As near as I can tell, the problem is with
Unicode single and double quotes, which appear to be "corrupting"
characters next to them, turning them into unexpected Unicode characters.

Attached is a screen shot from Firefox viewing Planet Debian that shows
the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ttf-freefont depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

Versions of packages ttf-freefont recommends:
ii  x-ttcidfont-conf              32         TrueType and CID fonts configurati

ttf-freefont suggests no packages.

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