[Freetype] How to deal with inconsistent fixed pitch?

[Pedriana, Paul]

I was testing the cour.ttf font that comes with Windows and it has

the FT_FACE_FLAG_FIXED_WIDTH set. However, when I load bitmaps

for this font, I get a different value for FT_BitmapGlyph->root.advance.x

with the space character vs. all other characters. Thus, the face flag

says the font is fixed width but the character advance widths are

different. Needless to say, this is a problem.

 

What is the proper way of dealing with this? How do I know what the

real advance width for the font should be? Is this a bug in FreeType

or is it a bug in the .ttf file or is it a bug in my expectation that

things should work sensibly? :)