Breezy fonts are worse?

[Carey O'Shea]

Carey O'Shea wrote:

> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:02:24PM +1000, Carey O'Shea wrote:
>>
>>> I've noticed some fonts in Breezy being worse. I took two 
>>> screenshots of http://forums.whirlpool.net.au, one from my Hoary 
>>> install and the other from my Breezy install.
>>>
>>> Hoary -- http://users.on.net/~lncoshea/carey/hoary.jpg
>>> Breezy -- http://users.on.net/~lncoshea/carey/breezy.jpg
>>>
>>> The screenshots are fairly self explanatory, but the Breezy fonts on 
>>> this webpage are murky, and the spacing between some characters is 
>>> very close and touching. While the Hoary fonts are clear and easy to 
>>> read, with the spacing correct and no blurring. Anyone know why this 
>>> is?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure this is it, but I've recently upgraded fontconfig to the
>> version in Breezy, and it changed the default font aliases.  Now
>> "Sans" refers to Bitstream Vera Sans, while in Hoary "Sans" used to
>> refer to Verdana.
>>
>> I've added this to ~/.fonts.conf to get Verdana back (Bitstream Vera
>> Sans does not have all the glyphs necessary for Lithuanian):
>>
> Marius, thanks for your reply. I added what you said to ~/.fonts.conf 
> and it didn't make any difference to that website 
> (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au).
>
> So does anyone else have any ideas?
>

Will this be resolved for Breezy release?