Hi, Every user of FreeType that I know has once in their lifetime hit the bug that with many common CJK fonts, non-CJK characters take doublewidth where they should take a single one. The fix always has been to pass FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH to FreeType, as the fonts have the bit set wrongly. A "monospace" CJK font is never monospace. It has single-width glyphs, and double-width, hence setting global-advance is wrong in the font.
But since this is such a common issue, I wonder if FreeType should simply ignore global advance by default. Cairo and fontconfig always pass that flag to FreeType. I've seen this bug hit Qt before. And most recently I watched it hit Skia. What do you think? behdad _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
