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[Bug 655619] [NEW] Hinting: tilde/macron confusion at small sizes (ãñõÕ)

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:40:26 -0000
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1. Copy and paste this line into the address field of a Web browser:
data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<p style="font-family:Ubuntu;font-size:20;">  ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ</p>

2. Reduce the font-size until the tildes ˜ become indistinguishable from
the macrons ¯.

Rendered in 13pt Regular

Sample Glyphs:

õ

Description:

At size 18 and less õ looks o that doesn't have tilde but simple line on
it. I don't know if it's a bug but there may be different similar
letters in other languages. Õ is estonian font.

UA String:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915
Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10

** Affects: freetype (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged

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Hinting: tilde/macron confusion at small sizes (ãñõÕ)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655619
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