Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts

[Stefan Monnier]

> +** Under X, some characters are unexpectedly wide.
> +
> +e.g. recent versions of Inconsolata show this issue for almost all of
> +its characters.  Due to what is probably an Xft bug, the determination
> +of the width of some characters is incorrect.  One workaround is to
> +build emacs with Cairo enabled ("configure --with-cairo" and have the
> +appropriate Cairo development packages installed) as this
> +configuration does not suffer from this problem.  See
> +<https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/42> and
> +<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-01/msg00456.html>
> +for more discussion.

Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result?


        Stefan