Re: Cocoa emacs renders Unicode combining diacritics improperly

[Dan Maftei <ninestraycats@gmail.com>]

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Aha, let me clarify something: there are some sounds in the world's
languages that cannot be created in any other way except using combining
characters. For example, the voiced alveolar lateral affricate (d͡ɮ 0x64
0x361 0x26E). Theoretically, I need to place any of the combining
characters in the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters block (0x2B0 through
0x2FF) onto any other character. Therefore, as a linguist, I quite
literally need the combining method to work. :-)

Thanks for the describe-char output. Mine is working as expected.
(un-related: can you reproduce this bug?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2012-07/msg00615.html)

So, I'm only a little better off than I started. Thanks for the Menlo font
tip: it does render ñ better. It's still off on, e.g., the afore-mentioned
voiced alveolar lateral affricate. I will look through the other fonts.

I guess there's nothing to do but try and integrate Yamamoto's patches into
the emacs trunk. This is clearly a bug with the way NS emacs interacts with
OS X.

Speaking of the patch, I didn't download 24.1.1 on purpose: the newest
official version as obtained from the FTP site (
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/) is listed as 24.1, which is what I used. I'm
not sure if a version 24.1.0 even exists... but I haven't dug through the
source repository much.

Cheers,
Dan

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