The nikud placement is good to excellent in the fonts tried so far. However, I tried a few more, and found one that's terrible: Aharoni Following is output from M-x describe-char with cursor on the double-yud character in the first word of the first paragraph. This font seems to systematically misplace not all but most base char + nikud combinations in my sample file. (Screen shot attached.) Any way to fix this? Thanks, Mark position: 3 of 2166 (0%), column: 1 character: ײ‎ (displayed as ײ‎) (codepoint 1522, #o2762, #x5f2) preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646)) code point in charset: 0x05F2 script: hebrew syntax: w which means: word category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong) to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5f2" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD" buffer code: #xD7 #xB2 file code: #xD7 #xB2 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) display: composed to form "ײַ" (see below) Composed with the following character(s) "ַ" using this font: xft:-culmus-Aharoni CLM-semilight-normal-normal-*-33-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 by these glyphs: [0 1 1522 145 13 -1 12 18 -10 nil] [0 1 1463 103 0 -5 5 -2 4 nil] Character code properties: customize what to show name: HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD old-name: HEBREW LETTER DOUBLE YOD general-category: Lo (Letter, Other) decomposition: (1522) ('ײ') On 11/28/15, 2:33 PM, "Benjamin Riefenstahl" wrote: >All the problems with the test text that I can see are fixed in m17n, >see the report opened there >. > >@Mark: Can you check that there is nothing open from your POV? > >Workaround procedure: As long as there is not new version of m17n >(i.e. >= 1.7.0) that can just be installed through package management, >the fixes so far can be applied by creating a directory ~/.m17n.d and >putting the file > >there.