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

[Danilo Egea Gondolfo]

Not sure where the problem is exactly but it can be reproduced like Juha
suggested.

On Xubuntu 22.04 if you go to Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts and set
"Hinting" to "Medium" or "Full" and have
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35", all the
DejaVuSerif...Italic fonts appear to break.

Either changing the interpreter version to 38 or 40 [0] or setting
"hinting" to "Slight" seems to be a workaround.


[0] - https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-properties.html#interpreter-version

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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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