On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 14:06:32 +0000 (UTC), Hin-tak Leung
<hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> There is no need for application using freetype to change the
> interpreter version at compile time - you can do that at runtime by
> setting the FREETYPE_PROPERTIES environment variable. This was
> introduced in freetype 2.7/2.8-ish.
>

> When you fix the interpreter version, it does not satisfy both types of
> the fonts together.

The idea of FREETYPE_PROPERTIES is that you should choose on an application-by-application basis. And maybe also that using Microsoft's Tahoma instead of wine's is a bad idea?

You are basically advocating switching the interpreter version based on font vintage/age , using a heuristics on the presence/absence of a table to tell you how old a font is. I think that is bad. Fix the font, or using a better way of telling the age of a font :-).