GNU bug report logs - #23360
bug fonts display overlap all versions

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Message #12 received at 23360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: fxiny <wtimew <at> libero.it>, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23360: bug fonts display overlap all versions
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:09:23 +0300

> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:17:57 +0200 (CEST)
> From: fxiny <wtimew <at> libero.it>
> 
> 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.

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