Umlauts (diaresis) in small fonts of DejaVu Serif (Ubuntu Dapper)

[Martin Waldburger]

In small-sized fonts (font size <= 10) of the DejaVu Serif font, which appears to be the standard font for serif fonts in Ubuntu Dapper, the diaresis or trema is not centered above the respective character (a, u, or o). Misplacing becomes especially apparent for capitalized umlauts and o-umlauts in general.

For DejaVu Sans however, diareses are centered correctly. Umlauts are also correctly centered if autohinter is chosen in fontconfig via "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig".

[William Grant (wgrant)]

They are quite offset, with ö looking quite bad when using DejaVu Serif.

[Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo)]

This bug is also present in Bitstream Vera Serif/Sans.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi, it's been a long while since this issue was reported - is it still an issue with newer Ubuntu (like Hardy?) If so, please set the status to Confirmed. Also, if you think this may be an upstream issue, please file a bug with them and link to that report here via the 'Also affects Project' link.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Bugs about dejavu can be reported via their mailing list http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version, such as 16.04.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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