Distiller: charpath … clip … stroke does not honour clip
Distiller XI Pro 11.0.20 (28/03/2017) does not honour the ‘clip’ in the following:
%!PS
1 setlinejoin  1 setlinecap  [] 0 setdash newpath
gsave
/TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT 96 selectfont 50 500 moveto (F70) true
charpath
clip % leaving the F70 outline as the current path
24  -4  1.99
{
        dup 2 sub exch
        setlinewidth 1 setgray gsave stroke grestore
        setlinewidth 0 setgray gsave stroke grestore
} for
grestore
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Also documented at 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.postscript/ewwOV_qN4JQ
(yes, a whole ago — but still broken).
Thanks for bringing this issue to our notice. we have logged bug in our database for the same and will be prioritized based on other work items.
Thanks,
Mridula
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Julian D. A. Wiseman
    
 commented
    
  Typo: “a whole ago” → “a while ago”.
Meaning that this bug was noticed by me 8⅓ years ago.