From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 44784@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#44784: Combining accent is not combining
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:25:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83leyiucws.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfsr7yvk.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:19:11 +0100)
> Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:19:11 +0100
> Cc: 44784@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
>
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Itʼs possible, since we do something similar for certain emoji
> > sequences. I question whether itʼs worth doing, though, it seems like
> > very much a rare condition, which is easily fixed by switching fonts.
>
> I guess so. I'm surprised that DejaVu Sans Mono is broken, though, so
> perhaps there is something else going on.
>
> This reminds me of a related thing I've wondered about: We don't combine
> glyphs from different fonts, because this may look very ugly. But has
> anybody tried doing it anyway? It may not look worse than what some
> people are seeing today...
I think it depends on the two fonts and the characters to compose. It
_could_ be much worse, there's no doubt about that. Different fonts
use very different styles for the same glyphs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-10 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-21 19:17 bug#44784: Combining accent is not combining Juri Linkov
2020-11-21 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-21 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-21 20:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-22 10:12 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-22 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-22 16:28 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-22 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-09 9:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-10 8:40 ` Juri Linkov
2022-02-10 10:49 ` Robert Pluim
2022-02-10 11:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-10 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-21 20:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-21 20:30 ` Juri Linkov
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