Here's my impression of literally every FreeType or Fontconfig bug report:

"I upgraded and now everything looks bad."

That's it. That's the complete issue. Maybe 1/10 times there's also a screenshot, invariably of a terminal with some weird bitmap console font in it, displaying Perl code.

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