From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020326 BuildID: 2002032608 I have this problems for at least 3 months. I'm attaching two png's. Look at eg. the mozilla2.png, in the line that starts with "BBC in November of 2001". The m in November is distorted. This is causes by the text being rendered slightly differently offset depending on wether the text is selected by dragging the mouse up or down. In this case the text was selected by pointing to the word "financial" in the last line of the paragraph, and then dragged up to the first line. Then I put another window on top of mozilla and remove it, which caused a normal repaint. More information on request. I'm running on madrake linux 8.2, and also saw this on mandrake 8.1, on at least three different machines. It might be related to Xfree86 (currently v4.2, also seen on v4.1). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. select a range of text 2. put a window over some of the selected text 3. remove window

I'm not shure this really relates to font accent, since I also see it on images.

Ick, looks like one of those twips-to-pixel rounding error bugs.

> Ick, looks like one of those twips-to-pixel rounding error bugs. Yes, I see it all over mozilla. Do you have some reference to source code? I can try building mozilla myself to catch the error.

Look at the last text line of this shot.

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Resolving as duplicate. If you feel this is not a duplicate, feel free to reopen. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129400 ***