Hi all, When pango was upgraded to 1.20.0 in sid I experienced several text rendering issues; some digits/letters looking different to others, huge spacing between lines in evolution and liferea, totally messed up rendering in xchat and others. Installing pango 1.18.4 fixed the issue. After a while packages started depending on >= 1.20.0 so I purged lots of fonts which got rid of this issue. I finally had time to track down which fonts caused it. I tracked this down by purging all fonts from my system one at a time. When I removed both ttf-sil-abyssinica and ttf-sil-charis the issues disappeared. When I installed either one on its own, the issues returned but in slightly different form. It appears that ttf-sil-charis overrides ttf-sil-abyssinica which overrides dejavu. Here are some screenshots of the issues with xchat, pango 1.20.1 and with & without the problematic fonts: http://people.debian.org/~pabs/tmp/with-ttf-sil-charis.png http://people.debian.org/~pabs/tmp/with-ttf-sil-abyssinica.png http://people.debian.org/~pabs/tmp/without-problematic-ttf-sil-packages.png I have the latest versions of libgraphite3 and pango-graphite from sid. When I purge pango-graphite the font issues are no longer there. So, I imagine that the problem is that pango-graphite is incompatible with pango 1.20. Does anyone else think that this is the correct analysis? Is there a new upstream of pango-graphite that works with pango 1.20 or is one planned? Perhaps the pango modver should have been bumped? Any other thoughts? I didn't file any bugs yet because I wasn't sure which package(s) are at fault.
Hi Paul, Thanks for reporting the issue, it's probably a pango-related problem. Could you please try with the pango-graphite-dbg package? Thanks. -- Nicolas Spalinger http://scripts.sil.org http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/ https://launchpad.net/people/fonts
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