Bug#302206: Bug #302206 - xfonts-scalable: bad kerning for bitstream charter roman font

[browaeys.alban@wanadoo.fr]

>When I display the word "L'information" with e.g. gfontview, the single quote is 
>completely within the `L' letter when kerning is activated. The result looks 
>ugly because the letters `L' and `i' are too near each other. I guess the `L' 
>uppercase letter has bad kerning information. 
>This is probably not a bug of Freetype because the problem is the
>same when I use the font with LaTeX.
>Can I hope that this problem will ever be corrected?

is there any kerning at all for non freetype clients ? 
gfontview is pre xft2 and latex non freetype2 ...

I am also interested in this issue. Does it means that we cannot
have the "same" result for scalable fonts under X with Xft2/freetype2
 and the others outputs (print, dvi, prefXft clients ) ?


Regards
Alban