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Comment by kevin_thibedeau

7 years ago

The Windows bugs are usually tied into executing TTF hint bytecode which is ignored by Freetype.

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skymt  7 years ago

FreeType used to ignore TrueType hint bytecode to avoid infringing on related patents, but those patents expired in 2010 and FreeType's interpreter is now enabled by default.

http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html

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