Regression: Glyph 'ý' has improper width (UbuntuBeta Regular since 1.9)

[Jan Vlnas]

Latest version of ubuntu-private-fonts (0.1.9~ppa1~lucid1) introduced a bug in glyph 'ý'. Previous version wasn't affected.

The attached screenshots shows the affected glyph in Fontmatrix; blue lines clearly the width of the glyph, notice also how acute is deviated.
On top of the screenshot you can see actual result, it's Pidgin conversation window with the string "aý bý cý dý eý". Of course, all GTK applications (and possibly others) are affected.

My font rendering settings are subpixel antialiasing with medium hinting.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

The acute accent has moved horizontally from the centre of the glyph to above the right-hand stroke.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Test to see whether we can post to this bug report per out-of-band email query.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Dalton Maag were having difficultly updating this bug report for some reason (I have a screenshot showing their repeated error, although haven't been able to track down the route cause---it could be IE related). Malcolm is aware of this report.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

ubuntu-private-fonts (0.1.10~ppa1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Regular:
      + Misplaced accent above lowercase y corrected. (LP: #619951)
      + Hyphen made 1 pixel heavier in sizes 32-36ppm.
      + Respaced hypen in 8-16 ppm. (LP: #608758)
      + Respace s in 12-18ppm to look less like a 5.
      + Period made 1 pixel lighter az 27 ppm.
      + Lowercase w made wider at 22ppm.
      + Small size (8-9ppm) greyscale improved. (LP: #621456)
      + Accent positions improved where possible. (LP: #622385)
    - Regular & Italic:
      + x height increased 1 pixel at 20,22,24 ppm.
    - Bold Italic:
      + Some Greek Poly glyphs adjusted spacing.
    - All weights:
      + U+0162, U+0163 now have cedilla accents. (LP: #615565)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:26:32 +0200