On 30 August 2020 at 17:29 CEST, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> On Aug 30 2020, Christophe Troestler wrote:
>
>> When running (gnus-display-mime) on the attached message, it displays
>> “J’ai rate´...” instead of “J’ai raté...”.
>
> This has nothing to do with gnus.  Characters from different fonts
> cannot be composed.  It just means that your default font does not
> have a glyph for the COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT.

Ah, thanks, that makes sense.  It is not my default font (which supports the composition) but the one picked up by HTML rendering.  How can I substitute/influence the fonts chosen by mm-shr?  (This problem seldom happens, I do not want to disable the use of proportional fonts for HTML emails.)

Best,
C.