Following TC's suggestion, I've done a test. With this map file layer:
LAYER NAME "road" STATUS DEFAULT TYPE LINE UNITS METERS CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS CONNECTION "host=localhost dbname=ttt user=uuu password=xxx" DATA "geom FROM view_road_ar USING UNIQUE oid USING SRID=4326" LABELITEM "name" CLASS STYLE WIDTH 16 COLOR 0 0 0 ANTIALIAS TRUE END STYLE WIDTH 15.8 COLOR 255 200 64 ANTIALIAS TRUE END LABEL ANGLE FOLLOW ENCODING "UTF-8" COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255 TYPE TRUETYPE FONT arial SIZE 24 ANTIALIAS TRUE POSITION AUTO PARTIALS FALSE BUFFER 50 END END END With nothing changed, only change the ANGLE to AUTO and FOLLOW, the generated images confirms the different processs of ANGLE AUTO & FOLLOW. Then I've done one more test which uses ANGLE FOLLOW, but with OUTLINECOLOR removed, then generated image shows "fractured" words.
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