It's ok, at least I found the cause of my problem. You can close the bug report. Thanks On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 6:22 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh > > Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:05:02 +0530 > > Cc: 58184@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > I think I may have found the problem here, JetBrains Mono does not have > the glyphs for these > > "faulty" characters that is why Emacs chooses a different font for them, > but the thing is these characters > > can still be displayed in the correct font i.e. JetBrains Mono by > combining the glyphs which made up the > > unsupported glyph, this is why hb-view was able to display them I guess. > > For example entering ṃ (#x1e43 Latin small letter m with a dot below) > will result in it being displayed in a > > different font, > > but entering ṃ (m + #x323 Combining dot below) will result in it being > displayed with JetBrains Mono. > > > > So now the question is should these characters be decomposed to better > fit with other characters when the > > font does not support them? > > We cannot do that in the buffer text, because that would mean > modifying the text behind user's back. And doing this in display code > woul mean activating character composition where none should happen. > > I think fonts that don't have glyphs for precomposed characters > shouldn't be used in Emacs for text that could have the codepoints of > those characters. Emacs doesn't pass every character to the shaping > engine, and so the tricks of decomposing characters to get them > displayed are something we cannot be expected to do. Sorry. >