Lato font missing letters in IE and Firefox

Question

WTF is going on with Lato Google Hosted (not sure about fontface) Font??? On IE 8, the font looks scrambled with letters missing and word spaces missing and I hear that it's the same on earlier (not so earlier) versions of firefox!

What's the point of a font / or a hosted a font when you can't read it on many browsers!! Lato went from hero to zero for me unless someone has a fix for it?

Answer 1

Lato 2.0 was released on Google Fonts today, however it has a problem:

Adam Twardoch, font developer, says, "In Lato 1, I used FontLab Studio to autohint the two thinnest weights and ttfautohint for the rest. In Lato 2, I used ttfautohint for all. This seems to not have been a good idea. I'll see what I can do about it very soon."

Meanwhile, the Google Fonts API will rollback the update today.

https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/issues/detail?id=331

Answer 2

The font was updated today, but the hinting regressed, so the update is being rolled back.