[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#827045: Bug#827045: fonts-fantasque-sans: (mono) broken right quotes (single and double)

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hi Jason,

Jason Woofenden <jason at jasonwoof.com> writes:

>
> For me, in st (suckless terminal) and inkscape, the closing quotes
> appear a full character to the left of where they should, as though
> they were accents on the "s" characters.
>
> This has been reported upstream (for the single quote only) here:
> https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/issues/59
>
> Apparently this issue bug does not happen if the font is built with
> a sufficiently new version of FontForge. (According to the bug link
> above.) They don't specify how new, but they don't like the 2012
> version that's in debian now.

Thanks for the report. I'm already working on new version of fontforge
for Debian. I hope that will resolve the issue.