[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#618310: ttf-dejavu: small Latin letters with dot above broken at small font sizes

[Piotr Engelking]

Piotr Engelking <inkerman42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In DejaVu Sans Bold and DejaVu Sans Oblique, small Latin letters with
> dot above (such as U+017C ż LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE) are
> broken at small font sizes - the dot is replaced with a vertical line.

The issue is present if font hinting is set to full or medium
(Xft.hintstyle: hintfull/hintmedium in xrdb -query), and
absent if it is set to slight or none (hintslight/hintnone).