Subject: Re: bug#23360: bug fonts display overlap all versions

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:09:23 +0300

> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:17:57 +0200 (CEST)
> From: fxiny <[email-masked]>
> 
> bug : all emacs versions after 2016-02-14 are affected
> all emacs pretests version are affected including today .93
> 25.0.92 and 93 are buggy , 25.0.91 is not
> 
> this is what :
> fonts menlo very bad displaying = overlapping vertical line space 
> (and other fonts mono i am told in irc chan )
> 
> by eyeballing changelogs i have compiled ii by using src/xftfont.c 
> from pretest 25.0.91 version and it works just fine
> 
> scroll down at changelog line reading "2016-02-25" "Remove unneeded workaround in xftfont.c"
> 
> i guess it was needed :)

It was causing problems elsewhere, see the bug report which got fixed
by removing the workaround.

I hope Handa-san (CC'ed) could look into this issue.