Antialiased fonts in emacs 23.2 on Windows

Question

I'm having trouble getting antialiased fonts to work correctly in emacs 23.2, to the extent that it appears that it doesn't actually support antialised fonts.

If I do the following in emacs 23.1:

(set-face-font 'default "DejaVu Sans Mono-9.0:antialias=subpixel")
(describe-font nil)

Then this reports the full name as "DejaVu Sans Mono-9.0:antialias=subpixel", and the font looks nice and smooth.

However, doing the same thing in emacs 23.2 gives the full name as "DejaVu Sans Mono-9.0" and the font looks nasty and chunky.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

This was a bug which should be fixed in a future version of emacs; see http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6303