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bug #22326: Hiragana and Katakana ranges of FreeSerif high above baseline

Submitter:  Steve White <Stevan_White>
Submitted:  Fri 15 Feb 2008 09:34:59 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  character range Severity:  4 - Important
Item Group:  letter positioning poor Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  * 2006-01-26
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Sun 17 Feb 2008 11:40:51 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Also FreeSans: same problem, same solution.

Know of no other Hiragana/Katakana ranges in these fonts.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sun 17 Feb 2008 11:35:24 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Translated FreeSerif and FreeSerifBold
Hiragana and Katakana by -100 in y direction.
Kenshi Muto said he agreed this was advisible.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Fri 15 Feb 2008 09:34:59 PM UTC, original submission:  

In the Hiragana and Katakana range of FreeSerif the glyph baseline is set far from where it should be.

For example, compare the Hiragana and Katakana range of FreeSerif with those of FreeSans. Make a string with some Hiragana and Katakana characters next to some Latin ones. In FreeSerif both Hiragana and Katakana characters float far above the Latin baseline.

In FontForge, the offset appears to be about 100 units.

The effect is that mixed Hiragana and Katakana and Latin script looks quite bad.

This problem also exists in other script ranges. I'll report each separately as I find them. (Arabic and Tamil already reported)

This has contributed to the font height problem, that was remedied as such in bug #15956: Line height is too big in sans and serif.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2008-02-18 Stevan_White Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2008-02-17 Stevan_White StatusConfirmed Fixed
    2008-02-15 Stevan_White SummaryHiragana and Katakana range of FreeSerif too high Hiragana and Katakana ranges of FreeSerif high above baseline

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