Re: Font rendering question - unifont-14.0.04.ttf

Ok, thanks.

> On 6 Aug 2022, at 11:34 pm, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Over at Python Pillow, we've had a user raise an issue about the way
>> that Pillow is rendering characters from unifont-14.0.04.ttf -
>> https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/6421.  I took a look,
>> and concluded that Pillow wasn't doing anything special, but just
>> showing what our dependency, FreeType, was returning.
>> 
>> The user then opened an issue with FreeType -
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1171.  The
>> Gitlab FreeType users concluded that FreeType was working correctly,
>> and that this is simply how the font behaves. They suggested
>> contacting a mailing list for further information.
>> 
>> If you have some time, and are so inclined, it would be nice if you
>> were to look over
>> https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/6421 and provide any
>> thoughts you might have.
> 
> It's not clear what I could add to the comment I gave in FreeType
> issue #1171.  Rendering with hinting & mono is simply broken with this
> font.  Perhaps you can do mono rendering without hinting as a
> work-around.
> 
> 
>    Werner