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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a problem with the auto-hinter, not with the font. With the
font's manual hinting, macrons and tildes are distinguishable at all
sizes down to 9px and possibly smaller. With the auto-hinter, Ā and Ã
are distinguishable from 12px upwards, but most of the others aren't
distinguishable until 19px upwards.

** Attachment added: "screenshot of the problem characters from 7px to 19px"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/655619/+attachment/4263843/+files/Tildes%20vs%20macrons.png

** Project changed: ubuntu-font-family => freetype (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: freetype (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: 1.00 => None

** Summary changed:

- Hinting: tilde/macron confusion at small sizes (ãñõÕ)
+ Auto-hinter muddles tildes/macrons in Ubuntu font <19px (ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655619

Title:
  Auto-hinter muddles tildes/macrons in Ubuntu font <19px (ñĀÃāãŌÕōõ)

Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  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

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