Unity5, new UI, fonts .. kerning

Is it a fact that you CAN NOT adjust kerning on fonts?

(Kerning is roughly speaking the spaces between letters in typesetting. If you don’t know what this is, or if you confuse it with line spacing, stretch, scale etc, please don’t answer this question.)

It seems unbelievable, but is this the case? Thanks for any factual information.

Perhaps someone has written a hack to kern out type? Thanks.

if this is indeed another ultrafuckup by unity, I found there is, thank God, a superb, totally professional solution posted by Deeperbeige …

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/adjustable-character-spacing-free-script.288277/