30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
7:59 p.m.
The only thing I can think that might be happening is that your distro has a specially patched version of Pango which does the kerning without being asked. Slightly unusual, but not inconceivable.
Kerning is currently broken for TTF fonts without OpenType tables in Pango since 1.11.
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye