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[Bug 1992369] Re: DejaVu Serif Italic capital letters and digits broken

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From: Danilo Egea Gondolfo <1992369@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 09:26:36 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1992369 <1992369@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I just noticed that this font (and many others) are marked as
"experimental" even in the most recent version of the source [0] [1]. So
it might be broken in some scenarios.

I opened an issue to clarify if that might be the case [2].

Meanwhile, if you change your XFCE font settings like mentioned above,
does it help?

[0] - https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-dejavu/tree/README.md?h=applied/ubuntu/kinetic
[1] - https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/blob/master/README.md
[2] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1193


** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues #1193
   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1193

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Title:
  DejaVu Serif Italic capital letters and digits broken

Status in fontforge package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-dejavu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gnome-font-viewer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After updating from Focal to Jammy, I noticed that DejaVu Serif Italic
  looks quite broken. At least the letters EFHKLMNT and the digits 1 and
  4 are affected

  Please see the attached screenshot. This was obtained from `gnome-
  font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf`

  As the font is the default for me in Firefox, it's quite noticeable.

  $ dpkg -l gnome-font-viewer fonts-dejavu-extra
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name               Version      Architecture Description
  +++-==================-============-============-==============================>
  ii  fonts-dejavu-extra 2.37-2build1 all          Vera font family derivate with>
  ii  gnome-font-viewer  41.0-2       amd64        font viewer for GNOME

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