peanutbutterandcrackers

I can confirm that the issue still exists in `pygame-1.9.6` as of today (and that [PR #706](https://github.com/pygame/pygame/pull/706) does not actually fix this issue). Code: ```python import pygame, sys from pygame.locals...

@ilario-pierbattista - Please pardon my abrupt pinging you, good sir, but because I saw [this gist](https://gist.github.com/ilario-pierbattista/be6b967b05fa2f1eb322f35988a33ad0) by you, I thought that, perhaps, you might also have something that you could...

@illume @takluyver @sublimator @bitcraft @dlon - Please excuse my impatience, esteemed developers, but since this was not getting any attention, I am taking the liberty of pinging the pygame project...

@illume - Yes, sir. I understand. I am sorry. I just wanted to get some information regarding whether I should be actually reporting this issue to the SDL devs instead...

@illume - Yes, sir! I would be honoured! Any little thing I could do to help, I would like to do it. However, I must admit that my knowledge regarding...

@illume - Please pardon my delayed reply, good sir. Great! I am working (right now) on something that I hope will be even more versatile (the test-script, I mean). I...

@illume - I have just pushed the project to GitHub. You can find it [here](https://github.com/peanutbutterandcrackers/PyGameTextRenderTester). It is horribly ugly. But I will be re-iterating through it in the coming days....

An Update: [The test script](https://github.com/peanutbutterandcrackers/PyGameTextRenderTester) now works with `GIMP 2.8.x` as well as `GIMP 2.10.x`. I have been updating/polishing it up sporadically. Please do check it out and let me...

@illume - Great! Regarding "whoever wants to work on this": if there isn't one (and we're counting on sdl_ttf 2.16 to be released as the next step in this flow,...

@illume - Thank you! I am on Linux Mint 19, currently. I will be looking at the resources that you have provided. Thank you very much!