Rendering: English glyph for Segoe UI Variable Display is wrong from yesterday

[natural-harmonia-gropius]

Rendering: English glyph for Segoe UI Variable Display is wrong from yesterday

[astiob]

@natural-harmonia-gropius By the way: the font you saw until yesterday probably wasn’t actually Segoe UI Variable Display, either. If I’m not mistaken, it should have been Segoe UI Variable’s default preset, which, again if I’m not mistaken, corresponds to Segoe UI Variable Text.

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Fellow libass maintainers, FYI: I’ve just confirmed that DirectWrite’s GDI interop does indeed find and return variable font presets:

GetFontFromFontFace:
family: [Segoe UI Variable Display]
fullname: [Segoe UI Variable Display Bold]
postscript name: [Segoe-UI-Variable-Display-Bold]

So technically #683 did somewhat regress this particular use case on Windows, but it was for good cause, and this wasn’t intentional in the first place, because we don’t support named variable font presets in ass_coretext, ass_fontconfig or embedded fonts, and even here we didn’t actually select the named variant in FreeType after finding the font.

This will eventually un-regress when #386 is fixed and full support for named variable font presets is added to libass across all font providers.

[astiob]

libass doesn’t support variable fonts, so it’s rather surprising that it ever worked for you.

You should be able to install Segoe-UI-Variable-Static-Display.ttf from the linked archive and use osd-font=Segoe UI Variable Static Display.