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> From: Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:43 +0000
> Cc: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>,
>  Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk>
> 
> 1. I don't need a latin font, I need a unicode font for handling
> mathematical expressions like x bar (for the mean of x) as I said in my
> original email.

That might be so, but the characters and the diacritics you mentioned
are all from the Latin blocks, so a font with good Latin coverage
should do this particular job for you.