Re: gdi32: pOS2->xAvgCharWidth can be negative however tmAvgCharWidth needs a positive value

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Aric Stewart  wrote:
> > > > what Mac does in that case?
> > > The mac handles the fonts without issue
> > > > Why do you think that your fix is correct?
> > > ..windows tmAveCharWidth should never be negative, and yet this logic
> > > causes it to be so for these fonts. If we want to be able to support
> > > these fonts, which work in every other regard, we need to have a fix
> > > like this.
>
> What did I not answer?

What value does Mac return for these kind of fonts? Does it take an abs()
like in your patch? Does it trancate the value? Does it calculate it somehow
(like taking an average of glyphs say a+z and A+Z)? Does it do something
different?