On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 20:53 +0200, Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
> Dnia 2008-05-29, o godz. 10:55:41
> Adam Williamson <awilliamson@(protected)):
>
> > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:20 +0200, Tomasz Pawel Gajc wrote:
> >
> > > - re-enable Xft support
> >
> > I've really only been following this via the changelog (because I hate
> > Firefox 3 more every time I try and use it...), but Xft is rarely the
> > *best* choice of font rendering these days...what are the
> > alternatives? What's the exact current situation? Have you tested it
> > with tricky stuff like CJK and Arabic?
>
> Well i've tested rendering fonts on wikipedia, i takes some time to
> render page in japanese but it works, same as bi-directional languages.

OK. How about this issue:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=803241

specifically? Pay close attention to the example screenshots to see the
'wrong' and the 'right' rendering: it's a compound character created by
overlaying two glyphs, the 'wrong' case has the glyphs incorrectly
positioned relative to each other.
--
adamw