[Bug 467745] Wrong rendering of cyrillic letter tse ( ц ) at 8pt and 10pt

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--- Comment #12 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com>  2008-11-22 07:18:13 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> 86dpi is borderline for good text rendering. Microsoft has been targetting
> 100dpi for example for at least a decade in windows (reduced to 96 to give
> margins to shoddy hardware manufacturers).
> 
> If your hardware is really 86dpi (as in actual pixels per inch), there's not
> much the best font can do (screens sold to computer gamers have often this kind
> of low pixel density but gamers are not known for reading lots of text)
> 
> In paper print, for example, standard is 600dpi and 150 is already a
> bad-quality magazine.

Low resolution or not, at these sizes there's no reason the autohinter
shouldn't be able to render the tail correctly. It manages to do it with щ just
fine as can be seen on the screenshots.

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