[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#678517: Bug#678517: fonts-liberation: Liberation Sans does not display "u" correctly at all sizes

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:30 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Am 22.06.2012 14:17, schrieb Ross Vandegrift:
> > Today I noticed that some slate.com headlines started to look very weird
> > in iceweasel.  Bolded renderings of the letter "u" do not have the same
> > thickness as the other letters.  If I change the font to DejaVu Sans,
> > the text looks correct.
> 
> I tried to reproduce this with both the slate.com homepage and your 
> minimal HTML example, but couldn't see the weird letters "u" that you 
> described.
> 
> Is it possible you still have an old local copy of the fonts e.g. in 
> ~/.fonts?
> 

Hi Fabian,

Thanks for looking at this.  I don't seem to have any old fonts - the system copy is selected by fontconfig, and it is the only version on my system:
$ fc-match arial -f"%{file}\n"
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
$ locate LiberationSans-Regular
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf

My font setup is almost the Debian default, but I have changed a few
things.  To rule this out, I disabled everything in /etc/fonts/conf.d
and confirmed that ~/.config/font-manager is missing.  Then, I enabled
only the symlink which assigns Liberation Sans to Arial:
# ls -la /etc/fonts/conf.d/*conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jun 25 07:55 /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf

Even with this setup, I am able to reproduce the issue with my HTML
example.  See the attached image for how the HTML looks on my system.

Thanks,
Ross


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