See if the following glyphs come out as any numbers (they are unicodes U+F000 and U+F001 repectively) when using DejaVu Sans: If you get something like 88 for both, then chances are, autohinting is enabled. I too have explicitly disabled it in my .fonts.conf, yet it appears as 88 in gucharmap.
** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60760 Title: turning off autohinting has no effect -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs