VL Gothic odd characters

[Martin Sourada]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:35:09 -0500 
Mark Alford wrote:

> The character 外 should look like this
> http://www.saiga-jp.com/dic/img/enlarge/e5a496.gif
> 
> But in the vl-gothic that my Fedora 13 has, it looks different: the
> diagonal stroke in the right half of the character goes through the
> vertical bar, when it should only go to the right of the bar.
> How does it look in your vl-gothic font?
> 
> (I could attach a png to this email to illustrate more clearly, but
> I'm not sure if the mailing list allows that.)
> 
Aah, I see what you mean. In both characters the last stroke is placed
unusually. I'm not sure if it's a bug or feature though, the IPA fonts
have it also this way (both Gothic and Mincho style). Might be worth
asking some actual Japanese whether it's wrong or acceptable
stylisation.

Martin
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