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25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 29078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29078: 25.2; font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:32:41 +0100

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Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net> writes:

> with libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2 (emacs-263.png, what is expected) and
> 2.8.1-0.1 (emacs-281.png, buggy). The behavior with a GNU Emacs
> 27.0.50 snapshot from August 2019 and libfreetype6 2.10.1-2 seems
> identical to emacs-281.png (i.e. nothing has improved).

Using

    ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-25-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x957)

and

libfreetype6/stable,now 2.9.1-3+deb10u1

(although I'm not sure that's what Emacs uses), I don't get a buggy
display in Emacs 27:

[screenzMqTG9.jpg (image/jpeg, inline)]

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That is, there are no gaps here.  (Debian Stable.)

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